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Key indices hover near neutral lines with negative bias in late trade
Dec-15-2025

Key indices hovered near their neutral lines with negative bias in late trade. The persistent sell-off by the Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) has ebbed investors’ sentiments. Moreover, traders kept a cautious approach amid continuous fall of Indian rupee against the US dollar made market. The Indian rupee weakened and hit an all-time low of Rs 90.75 against US dollar in early trade. However, market participant took support with India's exports rising 19.37% to $38.13 billion in November as compared to same period last year. Meanwhile, imports have declined by 1.88% to $62.66 billion. The trade deficit in November stood at $24.53 billion.

On the global front, Asian equity markets were trading mostly in red as investors fretted over tech valuations and digested disappointing economic data from China. European equity markets were trading higher ahead of release of slew of U.S. economic data.

The BSE Sensex is currently trading at 85174.98, down by 92.68 points or 0.11% after trading in a range of 84840.32 and 85275.64. There were 14 stocks advancing against 16 stocks declining on the index.

The broader indices were trading in green; the BSE Mid cap index gained 0.03%, while Small cap index was up by 0.39%.

The top gaining sectoral indices on the BSE were FMCG up by 0.47%, Industrials up by 0.37%, Consumer Durables up by 0.35%, Basic Materials up by 0.33% and IT up by 0.22%, while Auto down by 0.89%, Telecom down by 0.82%, Healthcare down by 0.38%, Consumer Discretionary down by 0.32% and Realty down by 0.17% were the top losing indices on BSE.

The top gainers on the Sensex were Hindustan Unilever up by 1.18%, HCL Technologies up by 0.68%, Infosys up by 0.52%, Tata Steel up by 0.49% and SBI up by 0.44%. On the flip side, Mahindra & Mahindra down by 1.85%, Bajaj Finserv down by 0.70%, Adani Ports &Special down by 0.64%, Power Grid Corporation down by 0.57% and Maruti Suzuki down by 0.55% were the top losers.

Meanwhile, deflationary trend continued, as India's wholesale price index (WPI) inflation remained in the negative zone in the month of November 2025, but the pace of decline eased compared with the previous month. WPI inflation stood at -0.32% in November 2025, as against -1.21% in October 2025.

The component wise, primary articles index, having weight of 22.62%, increased 2.07% from 188.2 (provisional) for the month of October 2025 to 192.1 (provisional) in November 2025, on the back of rise in the prices of minerals, food articles and non-food articles.  However, there was decline in the prices of crude petroleum & natural gas during the reported month.

Fuel & Power index, having weight of 13.15%, surged 1.03% from 145.0 (provisional) for the month of October 2025 to 146.5 (provisional) in November 2025, with increase in price of electricity. However, the price of mineral oils decreased in November 2025. Meanwhile, the price of coal remained same as in the previous month. Besides, Manufactured Products constituting the major portion of the index with weight of 64.23%, decreased by 0.07% from 145.1 (provisional) for the month of October 2025 to 145.0 (provisional) in November 2025.

WPI Food Index consisting of 'Food Articles' from Primary Articles group and 'Food Product' from Manufactured Products group have increased from 192.0 in October 2025 to 195.0 in November 2025. The rate of inflation (Y-o-Y) based on WPI Food Index increased from (-) 5.04% in October, 2025 to (-) 2.60% in November, 2025. Further, for the month of September 2025, the final Wholesale Price Index and inflation rate for 'All Commodities' (Base: 2011- 12=100) stood at 155.0 and 0.19% respectively.

The CNX Nifty is currently trading at 26015.05, down by 31.90 points or 0.12% after trading in a range of 25904.75 and 26045.00. There were 20 stocks advancing against 30 stocks declining on the index.

The top gainers on Nifty were Shriram Finance up by 2.12%, Interglobe Aviation up by 2.07%, Hindustan Unilever up by 1.25%, Tata Consumer Products up by 0.91% and HCL Technologies up by 0.68%. On the flip side, Mahindra & Mahindra down by 1.89%, Eicher Motors down by 1.56%, ONGC down by 1.37%, HDFC Life Insurance down by 0.93% and JSW Steel down by 0.91% were the top losers.

Asian equity markets were trading mostly in red; Nikkei 225 slipped 599.55 points or 1.19% to 50,237.00, Taiwan Weighted lost 331.08 points or 1.19% to 27,866.94, Hang Seng declined 377.79 points or 1.48% to 25,599.00, KOSPI dropped 76.57 points or 1.87% to 4,090.59, Straits Times fell 5.15 points or 0.11% to 4,581.30 and Shanghai Composite weakened 21.43 points or 0.55% to 3,867.92, while Jakarta Composite gained 23.25 points or 0.27% to 8,683.75.

European equity markets were trading higher; UK’s FTSE 100 increased 58.27 points or 0.6% to 9,707.30, France’s CAC rose 46.88 points or 0.58% to 8,115.50 and Germany’s DAX gained 44.91 points or 0.19% to 24,231.40.
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