Indian stock market: 7 key things that changed for market over weekend - Gift Nifty, geopolitical tensions to oil prices

livemint.com:

Sensex gained 190.75 points, or 0.26%, to close at 72,831.94, while the Nifty 50 settled 84.80 points, or 0.39%, higher at 22,096.75. In the last week of March, investors will now keep an eye on several stock market triggers including domestic macroeconomic data, government announcements on fiscal closing, foreign capital inflow, and other global market cues. “This week being a truncated week and the derivatives’ monthly expiry, we might see some volatility while Nifty is likely to consolidate at higher levels.

Also, US GDP data and other key economic data would keep investors busy," said Siddhartha Khemka, Head - Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. Also Read: Week Ahead: Macro data, F&O expiry, T+0 settlement, global cues among key market triggers this week Here are key global market cues for Sensex today: Asian markets traded mixed on Tuesday tracking overnight losses on Wall Street. Japan’s Nikkei 225 was flat, while the Topix fell 0.07%.

South Korea’s Kospi rallied 1.14% to hit its highest level in two years, while the Kosdaq gained 0.18%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index futures indicated a slightly positive start. Gift Nifty was trading around the 22,126 level, a discount of nearly 40 points from the Nifty futures’ previous close, indicating a weak start for the Indian stock market indices.

Also Read: Buy or sell: Vaishali Parekh recommends three stocks to buy today — March 26 The US stock market indices ended lower on Monday as the market rally showed signs of fatigue after the biggest weekly percentage gains for the indexes this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 162.13 points, or 0.41%, to 39,313.77, while the S&P 500 dropped 15.97 points, or 0.31%, to 5,218.21. The Nasdaq Composite