December 24, 2025 – Benchmark Indian stock indices, buoyed by global trends and the relentless purchasing of domestic investors, opened higher on Wednesday.

In the early trading, the BSE Sensex increased by 115.8 points to 85,640.64 and the NSE Nifty by 40.7 points to 26,217.85. Among the leading gainers of Sensex-constituted companies were Bajaj Finance, NTPC, Trent, Bharat Electronics, Adani Ports, and Eternal. While Tech Mahindra, Infosys, HCL Tech, and Sun Pharma were the underperformers in the tech sector.

The Asian markets were on the rise, with South Korea’s Kospi, Japan’s Nikkei 225, Shanghai SSE, and Hong Kong Hang Seng all marked up. Tuesday also saw a closing price increase for U.S. markets and they too were higher at the end of the day.

According to V.K. Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit, the market is moving toward a consolidation phase with an upward bias, supported by strong domestic macros and expected earnings growth in Q3 and Q4 of FY26. He indicated that the inflow of domestic institutional investors (DIIs) ensures some support to the market, whereas the foreign institutional investors (FIIs) would be selling off their holdings during the uptrends, thus restricting the price rise.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has planned to carry out ₹2 lakh crore OMO and a $10 billion USD/INR swap auction from December 29, 2025, to January 22, 2026, as a technique to uplift liquidity and cut down the yield. At the same time, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) offloaded shares amounting to ₹1,794.80 crore on Tuesday, whereas Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) purchased shares worth ₹3,812.37 crore net.

Prices of Brent crude rose modestly; the Brent crude price was $62.39 per barrel with a slight rise of 0.02%. On Tuesday, the Sensex lost 42.64 points, finished at 85,524.84, while Nifty just managed to end the day in the green at 26,177.15.