Domestic equity benchmark Nifty 50 managed to clock its first weekly gain of the New Year 2025 driven by gains in consumer durable, auto, energy and FMCG shares though weakness in select financial services stocks caused an initial rally to fizzle out prematurely. The 50-blue-chip index gained 191.4 points, or 0.8 per cent, for the December 30-January 3 trading week, holding barely 5 points above the psychologically important 24,000 mark. The leaner, 30-scrip barometer, the Sensex, gained 524 points, or 0.7 per cent, during the week. Investors await the onset of a new quarterly earnings season on Dalal Street now for domestic cues.      

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Here's a summary of some of the top gainers and losers among NSE's sectoral gauges:

Index Change (%)
NIFTY CONSUMER DURABLES 4.1
NIFTY AUTO 3.9
NIFTY OIL & GAS 3.4
NIFTY FMCG 2.4
NIFTY HEALTHCARE INDEX 1.4
NIFTY PHARMA 1.1
NIFTY PSU BANK 0.7
NIFTY MEDIA 0.4
NIFTY PRIVATE BANK 0.4
NIFTY METAL 0.1
NIFTY IT 0.0
NIFTY FINANCIAL SERVICES -0.2
NIFTY BANK -0.6
NIFTY REALTY -2.5

Here are a few things they can track during the next trading week, starting from January 6: 

DOMESTIC CUES

TCS Earnings

Tata Consultancy Services, the country's largest IT services exporter, is set to kick off the earnings season by reporting its financial results for the October-December period on January 9.  

Another Tata group firm, Tata Elxsi is also scheduled to report its quarterly numbers on the same day. 

Avenue Supermarts (DMart) will release its earnings report on Saturday, January 11. 

Infosys, the country's second largest IT company, is slated to report its financial results the next week, on January 16. 

Macroeconomic data

A private PMI survey capturing activity in the country's services space is due for release at 10:30 am on Monday, January 6. 

Official data on domestic industrial production is due at 4 pm on Friday.   

Institutional flows

Institutional investor flows will continue to be in focus on Dalal Street.  

Last week, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) net sold Indian shares to the tune of Rs 11,042 crore while domestic institutional investors (DIIs) made net purchases worth almost Rs 9,254 crore, according to provisional exchange data. 

From October to December, three back-to-back months of FII outflows, amounting to Rs 1.77 lakh crore, have kept the benchmark indices from retesting their all-time highs of late September, though DII inflows worth Rs 1.86 lakh crore have prevented further downside in the market.

GLOBAL CUES

Date Event
Monday, January 6 US services PMI data, Japan services PMI data, China services PMI data, UK Services PMI data, Germany inflation data
Tuesday, January 7 France inflation data, Eurozone inflation data, US trade data
Wednesday, January 8 US crude oil stockpiles data, Japan consumer confidence data, Germany retail sales data, France trade data
Thursday, January 9 FOMC minutes, US jobless claims data, Germany trade data
Friday, January 10 US unemployment data

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