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Stock Market Today: A weak trend was seen in the Indian stock market on the last trading day of the week. BSE’s 30-share Sensex closed with a fall of 367 points, while NSE’s Nifty 50 was also seen under pressure, trading at the level of 26,050. The main reasons behind this decline in the market were the caution of investors and selling pressure in selected sectors.
Why did the stock market fall?
At the sectoral level, some strength was seen in metal and realty stocks, which provided limited support to the market. However, there was sharp selling in heavyweight sectors like IT, auto, banking and healthcare, putting pressure on the major indices. Especially weakness in IT and banking stocks kept the market sentiment negative, due to which the market closed in the red after fluctuations throughout the day.
According to Vinod Nair, Head of Research, Geojit Investments Limited, the Indian stock market remained in a limited range in this week with less trading session due to holidays. He said that the recently announced liquidity enhancing measures by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are expected to improve the liquidity position in the banking system and may also help in controlling fluctuations in the currency market.
RBI took steps
RBI had announced on Tuesday that it will purchase government bonds worth Rs 2 lakh crore with the aim of increasing liquidity in the banking system. Apart from this, the central bank has also announced to auction dollar-rupee swap (buy-sell) worth $10 billion.
According to the RBI, the process of bond purchases and dollar-rupee swap auctions under Open Market Operations (OMO) will be completed in a phased manner between December 29, 2025 and January 22, 2026, which is likely to help in providing stability to the financial markets and strengthening the liquidity position.
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