Share Market Today: The Indian stock market fell into the red a few minutes after opening in the green. Sensex fell 377 points to 72942. Similarly, Nifty also fell by 66 points to the level of 22642.
However, on Monday, April 6, the first trading day of the week, the stock market opened on the green mark. In early trading, BSE Sensex jumped 157 points to reach the level of 73477. At the same time, Nifty started trading at 22723 level after rising by 67 points.
Asian market
On the morning of Monday, April 6, a mixed trend of business is being seen in Asian markets. An increase of 0.62 percent is being seen in Japan’s Nikkei 225. There is an increase of 0.23 percent in Topics. South Korea’s blue-chip Kospi is also ahead by 1.8 percent and small-cap Kosdaq has also gained 0.98 percent. Today many Asian markets are closed due to holidays. Easter is being celebrated in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, while Chingming Festival (festival of cleaning graves) is being celebrated in China and Taiwan.
US market
Following tensions in West Asia and rising crude oil prices, futures related to US equity benchmarks were seen trading in decline on Sunday evening. During this period, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures declined by 253 points or 0.5 percent. S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures also declined by 0.6 percent and 0.7 percent respectively.
crude oil
A jump is being seen in the prices of crude oil today. West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTI) is trading in the range of $ 111.84-114.57 per barrel. Brent crude futures were up 1.48 percent this morning at $110.64. At the same time, crude oil prices on COMEX are trading at $ 112.18 per barrel with an increase of 0.57 percent.
US dollar
The US Dollar Index (DXY), which measures the value of the dollar against six foreign currencies, was up 0.18 percent today at 100.21. This index evaluates the strength or weakness of the US dollar against six major currencies. This basket includes currencies like British Pound, Euro, Swedish Krona, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc etc. On April 02, the rupee strengthened by 1.77 percent and closed at 93.10 against the dollar.
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