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China's yuan was firm in offshore trading following a rally of about 0.7% in the prior session, as annual parliamentary sessions of the National People's Congress (NPC) kicked off with Beijing retaining a 5% economic growth goal for 2025.

«In the interim, flows can have some excesses, but we really feel that we have reached the bottom on Nifty. You can never say never, but largely we think we are done. Because even if you take earnings post downgrades, broadly next year will be 1200 rupees of earnings and 26-27 would be 1350 rupees of earnings,» says Sanjay H Parekh, Sohum Asset Managers. Give us a lowdown on where you feel the markets are headed from here. Do you think we have bottomed out enough because we had slipped below that 22,000 mark initially in the first half of the trading day? We have managed to recover only nominally from there. But do you believe that this is the worst for the market and now would be a good time for FIIs and along with them some confidence to return in the market? Sanjay H Parekh: So, essentially, our product is Nifty benchmark where we have at least 70% always in largecap. In fact, our average largecap holding has been 78%. So, I will just give you a perspective of how we think about Nifty to begin with. So, we think now the risk-return is really favourable.

Adani Wilmar, Ola Electric, Ambuja Cements, Power Grid, JSW Energy among others will be in focus due to various news developments. ONGC Indian oil explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp said its unit acquired clean energy firm PTC Energy for Rs 925 crore ($106.02 million) as the company looks to ramp up its green energy portfolio.

global selloff in markets. Equities opened lower in Sydney and mixed in Tokyo after mayhem on Tuesday that saw a global index approach levels from the start of this year. Contracts for the S&P 500 rose 0.8% — after the index dropped 1.2% on Tuesday — echoing gains in late trading after Lutnick hinted at a compromise with Canada and Mexico. That was within hours of the US imposing the largest set of new tariffs in nearly a century on goods from its neighbors and China.

Non-bank lenders and companies could spend less on foreign-currency loans as the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) $15-billion dollar-rupee swaps, aimed at boosting domestic liquidity, have also helped reduce the benchmark rate used to price currency risks in the country. The Mumbai Interbank Forward Offer Rate (MIFOR), which gauges currency risk when Indian companies bring dollar funds into India, has fallen over the past month after the RBI bought dollars from banks with an agreement to sell them back three years later, indicating the central bank is ready to lend dollars at a cheaper rate to the market.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is considering a plan to ease restrictions on short-selling — a trading strategy betting on a decline in prices of an asset-- on most stocks. In a recent meeting of the regulator-appointed secondary market advisory committee (SMAC), the proposal was discussed after broking industry officials highlighted that the market watchdog's January 2024 proposal to bar short-selling in stocks that are not in the future and options segment had caused uncertainty. The new recommendations, if implemented, could allow short-selling in all stocks, barring those in the trade-to-trade, or T2T, segment, said sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Sebi officials, during the discussions, agreed to give the plan another thought, they said. An email to Sebi went unanswered till press time.

«We have seen volumes drop by over 40% compared to last year's peak in the cash market,» said Sandip Raichura, CEO-retail broking and distribution at PL Capital. «This is due to first-time investors who are seeing their first correction and exiting, along with large clients like treasuries and HNIs (high networth individuals) unwilling to bet big in the current weak scenario.»

Advance Decline Ratio, widely used to gauge investor sentiment and market strength, in February was at 0.72 — the lowest reading in five years. A declining ADR means more stocks are falling as against the gainers and points to a weakening market. In January, the reading was 0.9, while in the period before October — when the market started declining, it was in the range of 1 to 1.28 on average.

Tariffs on Canada and Mexico took effect Tuesday — and they're bound to raise prices for consumers, sometimes in unexpected ways, according to economists.

Samco Securities. The average one month forward returns stand at 2.68%, the study found. “We did a backtest to check what happens one month after the index closes for 8 or more consecutive negative sessions. Since 2002 there have been 9 instances of eight or more days of consecutive negative closing. The index closed on a positive note one month later in 6 out of these 9 instances,” Samco said in a note.

President Donald Trump's new 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada took effect, along with a doubling of duties on Chinese goods to 20%, at 12:01 a.m. EST (0501 GMT).

Gensol Engineering plummeted 20% on Tuesday to hit the lower circuit, closing at Rs 413.95 on the BSE, after CARE Ratings downgraded the company’s long-term and short-term bank facilities due to delays in servicing its term loan obligations. CARE Ratings downgraded Gensol Engineering’s long-term bank facilities worth Rs 639.7 crore to CARE D from CARE BB+ with a stable outlook. The rating agency also lowered ratings on other long-term and short-term facilities worth Rs 76.3 crore to CARE D from CARE BB+ and CARE A4+.

Benchmark NSE Nifty closed 36.65 points down at 22082.65 amid selling in frontline bluechip counters.

Shares of Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd.(up 1.42 per cent), Raymond Ltd.(up 1.3 per cent), Brigade Enterprises Ltd.(up 0.89 per cent), Oberoi Realty Ltd.(up 0.58 per cent) and Prestige Estates Projects Ltd.(up 0.34 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

The last time the Nifty declined for 10 consecutive sessions was from December 28, 1995, to January 10, 1996. However, this occurred before the index's official launch on April 22, 1996, which was based on data starting from November 3, 1995.

The imposition of U.S. trade tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico dampened risk appetite, triggering a decline in global stocks and bond yields. However, Asian currencies rose between 0.1% and 0.6%.

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IPO) of NAPS Global India, which opened for public bidding on Tuesday, had an overall subscription of 6% as of 10:59 AM on the first day of public bidding. The company aims to raise Rs 12 crore through a fresh equity issuance of 13.2 lakh shares, with the issue available for investors to bid till March 6. The retail portion of the issue was subscribed by 11%, while the issue was subscribed by 1% in the non-institutional investors category on the first day of bidding. Meanwhile, the qualified institutional buyers had not made any bids yet.

«We are seeing what is going on already with equity markets going down, bond markets increasing a little bit already. Investors do not like uncertainty,» says Seth R Freeman, MD, GlassRatner Advisory. Like the way how Trump is making sure that all of us are up early, are Trump's moves giving you sleepless nights by any chance? Seth R Freeman: You want to wake up in the middle of the night and see the news. It has been constant now for the limited time that he has been the president. And now, he has the whole world shaken up.

Domestic benchmark index NSE Nifty fell 36.65 points to 22082.65, while the BSE Sensex traded 115.65 points down at 72970.29.

Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) surged as much as 3.7% on Tuesday to Rs 115.25 on the BSE after the Government of India granted the company a Navratna status, enhancing its financial and operational autonomy. The Department of Public Enterprises announced on Monday that IRFC and Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have been accorded Navratna status, expanding the list of such Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) to 26. IRCTC shares also gained on Tuesday, rising as much as 0.7% to Rs 680.7 on the BSE.