Prime Highlights:
- GIFT Nifty opens quietly lower, a quiet beginning to the trading day.
- Global sentiment is subdued after new U.S. tariffs imposed on Mexican and European imports.
Key Facts:
- Fourth consecutive session of softness in Indian market.
- Tariff-fueled global stress continues to cloud investor morale and market leadership.
Key Background:
Indian equity markets will have a subdued opening today with GIFT Nifty trading lower by a small amount, indicating investor hesitancy in view of a rise in global trade tensions. The negative sentiment comes after the U.S. administration recently imposed new tariffs, up to 30%, on certain imports from some European Union and Mexican countries, heightening fears of an intensifying global trade war.
This has led to risk aversion across worldwide markets since investors have been holding their breath for a tit-for-tat retaliation and worldwide supply chain worries. For investors in India, the ripple effect, in turn, resulted in eroding trust in export-oriented and large-cap pieces. The Nifty index lost value for four consecutive sessions with investors resorting to a wait-and-watch attitude.
Technically, Nifty is biased towards support levels. Key thresholds are closely watched by market observers, and their violation can lead to a steeper correction. However, consolidation around the support can lay the ground for selective buying if macro trends improve. India VIX has marginally increased in line with increasing market volatilities and uncertainties.
Apart from risk aversion, domestic macroeconomic announcement of inflation and industrial production figures, to be released towards the end of the week, are important to the investor. These releases will play a crucial role in directing RBI policy expectations as well as market direction in general. FIIs, however, maintained their net selling frenzy, reflective of increasing global risk aversion.
If that is the situation, market participants are urged to take a defensive approach, holding good quality stocks which are healthy in a financial context and low-beta sectors. The short-term trend would be determined by the news of tariffs across the world, FII selling/buying, and macroeconomic flow of data.
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