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By Malvika Gurung
Investing.com — Indian equity benchmark indices continued to rise for the second straight session, ending higher on Tuesday, after making a gap-up opening, taking positive cues from an overnight rally on Wall Street, expectations of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and lower prices.
A swift uptick in pharmaceutical stocks, along with gains recorded in realty scrips helped the domestic market to end higher.
Benchmark gauges advanced 0.6% and added 350.16 points or 0.61% on Tuesday, and the former index closed surpassing the 17,300 mark for the first time in the ongoing week.
A drop in oil prices, led by prospects of peace talks between Russia-Ukraine, along with lower demand expectations from the Chinese market due to lockdowns imposed in Shanghai and other cities, on account of rising Covid-19 cases, provided support to markets, stated Vinod Nair from Geojit Financial Services.
However, global cues, especially amid expectations of an imminent aggressive rate hike by the Fed to tame soaring inflation, along with the upcoming domestic events like the March derivative expiry in the week will keep the market cautious.
On the sectoral front, indices and ended lower, while and ended flat. All the remaining indices on the Nifty basket ended higher, led by . gained 0.38%.
64% of stocks listed on the Nifty ended in the green, led by Eicher Motors (NS:), HDFC (NS:) and Divi’s Laboratories (NS:), rising 3.2-5%, while Hero MotoCorp (NS:), ONGC (NS:) and Coal India (NS:) slumped the most, shedding 3-7%.
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