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Nifty index opened positive on Friday, witnessed profit booking and finally settled the day on a negative note at the 23,560 level. The volatility index, India VIX, dropped by 3.45% to 13.69, indicating a decrease in market volatility.

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI), under the leadership of new Governor Sanjay Malhotra, announced a 25 basis point reduction in the repo rate, lowering it to 6.25%.

Nifty formed a long negative candle on the daily chart on Thursday, which indicates an emergence of minor selling pressure from the highs. The index is currently placed at the overhead resistance of the down-sloping trend line around 23,800 levels. The bullish chart pattern like higher tops and bottoms is intact as per the daily timeframe chart and the present weakness could be in line with the new higher bottom of the pattern. The higher bottom reversal needs to be confirmed at the lows.

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«He has got a team. He cannot just implement. He just cannot go and take over Gaza. It is like mind boggling logistics. He has a team. It has to be implemented. And at that stage, things are very different from what he is saying,» says Atul Suri, Marathon Trends — PMS. So, let us first just I will put the template, that is Atul Suri's template. You get the credit if you get it right. Atul Suri's template is, it is too late to sell. The bull market is not over. The panic and the excesses in the market, I think the time to panic is over and the excesses in the market have normalised. Small and midcap stocks, not everything will go up, but the party is not over. Now, there is one number which everybody is now suddenly started tracking, dollar index. The fascination with dollar index. Every morning we come and say the dollar index upar hai, markets will go down. Is it as simple as one data point which will decide which way flows would move? Dollar goes up, FIIs sell. Dollars come down, FIIs will come back. It cannot be that simple. Atul Suri: It cannot be.

Gold’s fresh lifetime high of Rs 84,894 per 10 grams on Wednesday marked an over 10% surge in yellow metal prices in 2025, so far. The rally has been fueled by fears of a likely tariff war between the US and the rest of the world, triggering a haven appeal for bullion. Investors have taken refuge in gold and silver, with the latter also delivering more than 10% returns on the year-to-date basis.

«We talk about US, the great bull market between 1980 and 2000, the Dow moved from some 700 to 10,000, but in that there was something called crash of 87, where books were written about, but we do not talk about it. 2003 to 2008 in the Indian context, the market had hit lower circuit two or three times,» says Atul Suri, Marathon Trends — PMS. It has been a bad year. Will bad get ugly before it gets better? Atul Suri: See, it is a very difficult answer whether it will get ugly, but personally I think that the first question you have got to ask yourself is the primary trend changed. I do not think so. We are still in a larger bull market. Yes, we will go through corrections. We will go through pain. I mean, we know it, we can look back at 50-100-year charts and see that hey no line has gone straight and in all these times.

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monetary policy announcement on February 7, according to a report by Bank of Baroda.

Following the Rs 1 lakh crore boost to consumption via income tax relief, Siddhant Chhabria, Research Analyst & Fund Manager at Mirae Asset, is incrementally looking to further increase allocation in the discretionary sector. «We have been overweight consumer discretionary and underweight staples as the discretionary sector can grow at 1.5-2x GDP growth while staples have the potential to grow at ~1x GDP. Both sectors are trading at similar valuation, hence we prefer discretionary given the growth opportunity,» says the fund manager of Mirae Asset Great Consumer Fund.

Page Industries will remain in focus on Thursday, February 6, after the company announced on Wednesday a 34.4% YoY increase in its net profit for the third quarter, which ended December 2024. The same was reported at 204.7 crore, driven by improved operating margins.

The bank said 51% of its 4,233 respondents named inflation and tariffs together as the top potential developments likely to dominate markets this year. Last year, inflation was also a top concern, but only for 27% of the interviewees.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On February 5, strong winds of bearishness continued to curb any revival in the Nifty. We have to wait for global cues to settle downso we can handle the positive signs that are emerging slowly.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Nifty 50, India's benchmark index, closed 43 points lower at 23,772.05 and snapped its two-day gaining streak. Taking cues from the global markets, the index started the session with a muted opening at 23,801.75 and continued to trade in a broad range of 23,680–23,810 to close near the day’s low.

stocks. Investors stayed cautious ahead of the Reserve Bank of India's three-day monetary policy meeting, which commenced today, with expectations of an impending rate cut. The benchmark BSE Sensex lost 312.53 points or 0.40% to close at 78,271.28, while the broader Nifty 50 index closed at 23,696.30, lower by 42.95 points or 0.18%.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 4 February, global cues dictated the trends once again. After a weak start that was beset with some apprehension, the strong resurgence by the bulls has surprised the bearish camp to move beyond the Budget-day high.