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foreign selling. The rebound on the heels of a prolonged period of gloom has helped the main indices erase all their 2025 losses. The rupee advanced to 85.63, its strongest this year against the dollar, rising for the ninth day in a row.
The NSE Nifty rose 307.95 points or 1.32% to close at 23,658.35. The BSE Sensex rose 1,078.87 points or 1.4% to end at 77,984.38. Both indices are up 5.1% in the six trading sessions. «Monday's upside was due to a combination of short covering, and expectations of some relaxation or less punitive tariffs which were supposed to be implemented on April 2,» said Pankaj Pandey, head of retail research at ICICI Direct.
Donald Trump's regime could exclude a set of sector-specific tariffs on April 2, as per reports. US markets opened higher Monday with indices gaining 1-1.5% in early trade. Elsewhere in Asia, China advanced 0.15% and Hong Kong rose 0.9%, while Japan fell 0.2%, South Korea declined 0.4% and Taiwan dropped 0.5%.
India's recent outperformance could also be on account of a shift in investor interest from China with Beijing's recent measures to boost domestic consumption falling short of expectations.
«The weakness in China's equity market seems to have added some zip to the recovery of Indian equities,» said Gary Dugan, CEO of The Global CIO Office, in a note.
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«The disappointment in China probably added as a near-term catalyst for some movement as active EM managers repositioned their bets into equities in India,» Dugan said.
On Monday,
