Today’s stock market: The Sensex and Nifty 50, the key indices for the Indian stock market, are expected to open lower on Monday, December 15, after generally bearish signals from Asian markets following Friday’s lower closing for US stocks.
After two straight sessions of advances, Gift Nifty trends also suggested a muted start for local stocks. Gift Nifty was down 98 points, or 0.4%, from the previous close of Nifty futures, holding around 26,037.
This week’s stock market patterns will be determined by global cues, foreign investors’ trading activities, and WPI inflation statistics.
Back home, on Friday, December 12, the Indian stock market continued to rise for the second consecutive session thanks to positive sentiment throughout the world following the US Federal Reserve’s announcement of a rate cut. The Nifty 50 gained 148 points, or 0.57%, to close at 26,046.95, while the Sensex increased 450 points, or 0.53%, to conclude at 85,267.66.
“Despite the rupee hitting historic lows and ongoing FII outflows, global risk appetite increased following the U.S. Fed rate cut, bolstering liquidity confidence and elevating domestic shares. After a recent correction, broader indices are exhibiting buying interest and recovering. According to Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Investments Limited, “the near-term focus is on rupee levels, FII flows, and trade talks, with global cues from the BoJ (likely to hike), ECB, and BoE policy signals.”
The following are important market indicators for the Nifty and Sensex today:
Asian Markets
The last full trading week of 2025 saw Asian markets open lower as investors’ appetite for risk was reduced due to rising concerns about technology companies’ earnings prospects and their significant investments in artificial intelligence. South Korea, a major beneficiary of AI enthusiasm, fell more than 2%, while MSCI’s regional equity index fell 0.4%. Following Wall Street’s Friday loss, which was mostly caused by drops in tech firms, US equity-index futures fluctuated between slight gains and losses. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 down 0.8%, Japan’s Topix barely moved, and Hang Seng futures fell 1%. Euro Stoxx 50 futures, meanwhile, saw a 0.1% increase.
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After two straight sessions of advances, Gift Nifty trends also suggested a muted start for local stocks. Gift Nifty was down 98 points, or 0.4%, from the previous close of Nifty futures, holding around 26,037.
Wall Street
As investors continued to shift away from technology companies and toward value-oriented industries, U.S. stocks fell on Friday. The Nasdaq Composite sank 1.69% to 23,195.17, while the S&P 500 dipped 1.07% to settle at 6,827.41. After setting a new intraday high earlier in the session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 245.96 points, or 0.51%, to close at 48,458.05. Although it also reached a new all-time high during the day, the Russell 2000 fell 1.51% to 2,551.46.
Major indices were severely impacted by Broadcom’s more than 11% decline, which increased pressure on the overall market. Even while the business exceeded fourth-quarter projections and released a positive outlook for the next quarter, emphasizing predictions that its AI chip revenue will quadruple, analysts ascribed the selloff primarily to worries about possible margin compression.
The dollar has a weaker start to the week.
With markets concentrating on interest-rate outlooks across major economies as the year comes to an end, the dollar nursed losses on Monday while the euro and sterling remained stable ahead of important central bank meetings this week. As investors got ready for a busy week that included the highly anticipated nonfarm payrolls report and U.S. inflation data, currencies traded within narrow ranges in early Asian hours. Following a central bank poll that revealed business sentiment among major Japanese manufacturers had reached a four-year high, the yen saw minimal movement. The Japanese yen fell 0.1% to 155.94 USD.
The Bank of Japan will raise rates
Expectations that the Bank of Japan may hike interest rates this week have increased after confidence among Japan’s major manufacturers reached a four-year high. The BOJ’s quarterly Tankan survey, which was issued on Monday, shows that the business sentiment index increased to 15 in December from 14 in September. According to a Bloomberg poll, the reading was consistent with the median estimate of economists. Large non-manufacturers’ sentiment remained stable at 34, close to its highest point since the early 1990s. A positive number means that more businesses consider the situation to be “favorable” than “unfavorable.”
Gold Prices
Following four straight sessions of advances, gold steadied as traders reduced their expectations of further US monetary easing next year due to conflicting remarks from Federal Reserve officials. As of 7:47 a.m. on Monday, bullion prices were up 0.2% to $4,306.33 per ounce in Singapore, hovering around $4,305 per ounce. Silver fell 2.5% on Friday before rising 0.1% to $62.0140. Palladium decreased whereas platinum increased. There was little movement in the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index.
Oil prices
With the help of fresh optimism in the world’s financial markets, oil recovered from its lowest closing in almost two months. While Brent finished above $61, West Texas Intermediate rose toward $58 per barrel following a 1.5% drop in the previous session.
A generally pessimistic crude outlook was countered by the positive attitude. Due to worries about an increasing supply glut, oil prices have dropped by over 20% this year. The International Energy Agency emphasized that global stockpiles had hit a four-year high on Thursday and reaffirmed its anticipation of an exceptional surplus, albeit one that is marginally lower than last month’s estimate.
Prices of Bitcoin
As investors became more cautious ahead of a busy week of economic data releases and central bank pronouncements, Bitcoin fell below $89,000 on Sunday amid muted weekend trade. UTC, down around 0.9% over the previous day, little higher for the week, but still down nearly 7.6% over the previous month. Ether outperformed Bitcoin on a weekly basis, trading close to $3,104, down on the day but up more than 2% over the previous week.
