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Key indices continue to trade in green in morning deals
Dec-24-2025

Indian equity benchmarks continued to trade in green in morning deals, tracking a consistent buying by domestic institutional investors. Traders took support with Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal’s statement that India is actively engaged in trade discussions with the US, and hopes to conclude the talks ‘sooner than later’ in a manner that restores deeper market access for domestic exporters. Separately, the income tax department said that over 15 lakh taxpayers have filed a revised return for the current assessment year 2025-26. Also, over 21 lakh taxpayers have updated their income tax returns during the current fiscal and paid Rs 2,500 crore in taxes.  On the global front, Asian markets are trading mixed as the volume of business was thin in most the markets as traders remained on the sidelines ahead of upcoming Christmas holidays.

The BSE Sensex is currently trading at 85680.14, up by 155.30 points or 0.18% after trading in a range of 85386.54 and 85738.18. There were 22 stocks advancing against 8 stocks declining on the index.

The broader indices were trading in green; the BSE Mid cap index rose 0.36%, while Small cap index was up by 0.25%.

The top gaining sectoral indices on the BSE were Realty up by 0.59%, Capital Goods up by 0.51%, Telecom up by 0.46%, Consumer Durables up by 0.45% and Metal up by 0.43%, while IT down by 0.17%, FMCG down by 0.08% and Healthcare down by 0.04% were the top losing indices on BSE.

The top gainers on the Sensex were Bajaj Finance up by 2.19%, Adani Ports &SEZ up by 0.61%, NTPC up by 0.59%, Axis Bank up by 0.57% and Kotak Mahindra Bank up by 0.50%. On the flip side, Sun Pharma down by 0.98%, Tech Mahindra down by 0.44%, Hindustan Unilever down by 0.28%, Infosys down by 0.22% and Reliance Industries down by 0.13% were the top losers.

Meanwhile, in a bid enhance accuracy, reliability and overall quality of the consumer price index (CPI), the government plans to include online sources as well as e-commerce platforms to compute retail inflation. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is working on changing the base years for computing CPI, Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The new series of CPI (consumer price index-based inflation) with base year (2024=100) data is scheduled to be released on February 12, 2026. The data on National Accounts with financial year 2022-23 as base year is scheduled to be released on February 27, 2026, while the new series of IIP data with base year 2022-23 will be released on May 28. MoSPI organised a pre-release consultative workshop on base revision of CPI, GDP and IIP.

Regarding the inclusion of new data sources in the CPI, MoSPI said in addition to the data collected from physical outlets as being done in the current series, prices would also be obtained from e-commerce platforms in 12 selected cities with a population of more than 25 lakh.  Moreover, it stated efforts will also be made to procure administrative data in coordination with railways for rail fares, petroleum ministry for fuel prices, and postal department for postal tariffs. For airfares, telecom services, and OTT platforms, price data is proposed to be compiled from online sources using web-based methods. 

The adoption of these alternative and digital data sources is expected to significantly improve the representativeness, reliability, accuracy and overall quality of the CPI. MoSPI is expanding coverage across both urban and rural markets and is also incorporating e-commerce price data and other digital sources to better capture changing consumption patterns. GDP base year revision will also help include additional data sources and alignment of compilation process with methodological improvements, standards and classifications.

The CNX Nifty is currently trading at 26230.95, up by 53.80 points or 0.21% after trading in a range of 26141.40 and 26236.40. There were 35 stocks advancing against 15 stocks declining on the index.

The top gainers on Nifty were Shriram Finance up by 2.43%, Bajaj Finance up by 2.28%, Coal India up by 1.74%, JIO Financial Services up by 1.24% and Apollo Hospital up by 1.12%. On the flip side, Dr. Reddy's Lab down by 1.63%, Sun Pharma down by 1.17%, Tata Motors Passenger down by 0.88%, Wipro down by 0.77% and Tech Mahindra down by 0.54% were the top losers.

Asian markets are trading mixed; Nikkei 225 slipped 70.87 points or 0.14% to 50,342.00, Jakarta Composite plunged 8.12 points or 0.09% to 8,576.66, KOSPI dropped 7.52 points or 0.18% to 4,109.80 and Straits Times fell 2.63 points or 0.06% to 4,636.34.

On the flip side, Hang Seng advanced 47.86 points or 0.19% to 25,822.00, Taiwan Weighted added 22.71 points or 0.08% to 28,333.18 and Shanghai Composite strengthened 11.39 points or 0.29% to 3,931.37.
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