Top Gainers & Losers on August 19: OLA, Hyundai Motor, Raymond, Reliance Power, Vardhman Textiles among top gainers
The broader markets continued to outperform frontline indices, with the Nifty Midcap 100 advancing 1.2% and the Nifty Smallcap 100 rising 0.60%. Sector-wise, the Nifty Oil & Gas index led with a 1.69% rally, followed by Nifty Media, Nifty Auto, and Nifty FMCG, which gained between 1% and 1.39%.
Following his Monday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, Trump said he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin and was working to arrange a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy, to be followed by a trilateral summit. While this raised hopes for a potential peace deal, investors remained cautious about an imminent breakthrough.
Attention is now firmly on Fed Chair Jerome Powell's speech in Wyoming later this week, as traders look for clues on whether the U.S. central bank will resume cutting interest rates in September. Markets currently imply an 84% chance of a 25-bps rate cut next month.
Meanwhile, China has promised to address three of India's concerns—rare earths, fertilizers, and tunnel boring machines, during a bilateral meeting between External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Tuesday, ANI reported, citing sources.
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