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Bourses trade at day’s high levels in early afternoon session
Dec-31-2025

Indian markets extended their gains in early afternoon session. Currently, markets traded at day’s high levels amid value buying by investors. Buying in metal sector stocks helped markets to trade higher. Traders took note of report that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to conduct an Open Market Operations (OMO) purchase of government securities for an aggregate amount of Rs 50,000 crore on January 5, 2026. The Reserve Bank will purchase the Government securities through a multi-security auction using the multiple price method. Sector wise, cement industry remained in limelight as Rating agency ICRA in its latest report has said that the Indian cement industry is expected to maintain mid single-digit growth in the next fiscal year (FY27), helped by the factors including steady demand from housing and infrastructure projects.

On the global front, Asian markets were trading mixed as China's manufacturing activity rebounded in December as output returned to growth amid higher inflows of new work. The RatingDog headline factory Purchasing Managers' Index posted 50.1 in December, up from 49.9 in November. A score above 50.0 indicates expansion. 

The BSE Sensex is currently trading at 85069.77, up by 394.69 points or 0.47% after trading in a range of 84705.57 and 85123.50. There were 22 stocks advancing against 8 stocks declining on the index.

The broader indices were trading in green; the BSE Mid cap index gained 0.95%, while Small cap index was up by 0.97%.

The top gaining sectoral indices on the BSE were Oil & Gas up by 2.41%, Energy up by 2.07%, Metal up by 1.74%, PSU up by 1.65% and Power was up by 1.32%, while IT down by 0.22%, and TECK down by 0.17% were the only losing indices on BSE.

The top gainers on the Sensex were Tata Steel up by 2.45%, Trent up by 1.77%, Reliance Industries up by 1.67%, Titan Company up by 1.67% and Power Grid up by 1.59%. On the flip side, TCS down by 0.86%, Bajaj Finance down by 0.83%, Tech Mahindra down by 0.47%, Infosys down by 0.45% and Bajaj Finserv down by 0.40% were the top losers.

Meanwhile, as 2025 comes to a close, Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Jitendra Singh has marked it as a year of governance reforms where policy interventions were designed to improve ease of living for citizens, alongside create a more enabling and work-friendly environment for government employees. These comments came during a year-end press conference, where the Minister highlighted the year-end achievements of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, covering the work of the Department of Personnel and Training, the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, and the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare. 

Singh further noted that guided by the principle of minimum government and maximum governance, 2025’s reforms focused mainly on simplifying procedures, reducing pendency and use of technology to make government more responsive and citizen-centric. Besides, he said that governance outcomes in 2025 reflected a maturing reform process, where digital tools, institutional innovation and human-centric approaches were brought together to deliver tangible improvements in public service delivery.

Highlighting pensioner welfare initiatives, Minister said the Digital Life Certificate Campaign 4.0, conducted in November 2025, was the largest ever, generating 1.68 crore digital life certificates across 2,000 districts, sub-divisions and cities, with more than 1.01 crore certificates submitted using face authentication technology. He said digitisation of pension sanction and payment tracking through the Bhavishya platform continued to expand, while pension grievance redressal reached its highest level in any calendar year, with over 1.12 lakh grievances resolved. 

The CNX Nifty is currently trading at 26096.70, up by 157.85 points or 0.61% after trading in a range of 25969.00 and 26099.30. There were 42 stocks advancing against 8 stocks declining on the index.

The top gainers on Nifty were JSW Steel up by 4.89%, Tata Steel up by 2.49%, Trent up by 1.84%, Reliance Industries up by 1.81% and Power Grid up by 1.69%. On the flip side, TCS down by 0.84%, Bajaj Finance down by 0.81%, Wipro down by 0.46%, Tech Mahindra down by 0.45% and Infosys down by 0.28% were the top losers.

Asian markets were trading mixed; Taiwan Weighted added 256.47 points or 0.89% to 28,963.60, Shanghai Composite strengthened 3.72 points or 0.09% to 3,968.84. On the flip side, Straits Times fell 9.17 points or 0.2% to 4,646.21 and Hang Seng was down by 272.6 points or 1.07% to 25,582.00.
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