IT sector Q4 results are in
IT sector Q4 results are in Three largecaps, three different stories → TCS: profit +28.7% to ₹13,718cr → EBIT margin 25.3% → $12B deal TCV in Q4 alone → Infosys: profit +21% but guided FY27 CC growth 1.5% to (-)3.5% — demand slowdown ahead → HCL Tech: revenue flat sequentially
Market Snapshot — Close
Day Change
Overview
Brent's spike on US-Iran peace doubts torched a banking-led tape — Nifty slipped below 24,000 even as oil & gas and metals printed green. The non-obvious read: DIIs absorbed nearly four times the FII outflow, suggesting domestic conviction is treating crude-driven weakness as transient, not structural.
What Moved
- Nifty 50 closed at 23,995.70, down 97 points or 0.40%, breaking the psychological 24,000 mark as banking heavyweights dragged on rising crude and renewed FII selling tied to West Asia uncertainty.
- Sensex ended at 76,886.91, off 416.72 points or 0.54%, with private and PSU bank constituents leading the drawdown after Brent's intraday jump on stalled US-Iran talks.
- Bank Nifty closing level data unavailable, but the index materially underperformed as PSU banks slumped on widening NIM concerns and the broader risk-off in lenders that pulled the headline indices red.
- India VIX level data unavailable; with crude the day's wild card and FIIs net sellers at ₹1,151 crore, intraday volatility was clearly bid into the close.
Sector Watch
- Oil & Gas outperformed as Brent's rally lifted upstream realizations — ONGC and Oil India led the move (stock-specific % data unavailable).
- Metals closed green on firm global commodity cues, with Tata Steel and JSW Steel participating in the bid.
- PSU Banks were the day's worst performers — sticky deposit costs and crude-fed inflation fears pressured SBI and PNB, dragging Nifty Bank lower.
- Nifty MidCap bucked the benchmark weakness, finishing up 0.28% as domestic flows held the broader tape.
- Nifty SmallCap closed up 0.42%, the second straight session of broader-market resilience despite headline-index wobble.
Global Context
S&P 500 closing level data unavailable, DXY level data unavailable, and the exact Brent crude print is data unavailable — but Brent's directional move higher on US-Iran peace uncertainty was the day's transmission channel into Mumbai. It spooked banks via the inflation/NIM read-through and fueled the ₹1,151 crore FII outflow, even as DIIs stepped in with ₹4,124 crore of net buying.
What to Watch Tomorrow
- Nifty: support at 23,800 (50-DMA cluster), resistance at 24,150 — a clean break below 23,800 opens the door to 23,600; a reclaim of 24,150 neutralizes today's bearish close.
- April F&O expiry on 30 April 2026 alongside any updated US-Iran readout — street is positioned for de-escalation, so any hardening rhetoric extends Brent's move and deepens the FII bleed.
- FII flow threshold: a fourth consecutive session of net selling above ₹1,000 crore would mark the longest outflow streak since March and pressure the rupee through 83.50.