On Thursday, the Sensex tanked 304.18 points to close at 60, 353.27, while the Nifty 50 dropped 50.80 points to close at 17,992.15. Among the Nifty gainers were Hero Motorcop, Cipla, NTPC, ITC and JSW Steel, while, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, ICICI Bank, Titan Company and Infosys were among the top losers. 

Nifty and Sensex managed to put up minor gains ahead of Diwali weekend. The benchmark index closed at 17,576 while Sensex gained 100 points.

Going ahead, volatility is what the market participants would continue to hear every now and then as quelling the market expectations of a cut next year, the officials hinted that no cut would be seen in 2023. And, moreover, the central banks around the world are anteing up the pace of rate hikes.   

The shares of Aarti Drugs jumped 11.10 per cent as the media reported that the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has recommended the continuation of anti-dumping duty on Ofloxacin imported from China.

Here is the performance of Bajaj Group stocks. I’m sure many of you would assume either Bajaj Finserv or Bajaj Finance to be the top performing stock; if so, you’re in for a surprise!

At 2.30 pm on Thursday, the headline equity indices, i.e. Sensex and Nifty 50 are trading higher on the bourses since the US inflation data came out better at 8.5 per cent than the expected 8.7 per cent by the analysts.  

Nifty Financial Services index has lost 2.69 per cent on a YTD basis whereas BSE Finance index dropped 3.83 per cent.  

Looking at the returns of the past three years, Nifty Financial Services index has gained 34.25 per cent vis-à-vis S&P BSE Financial Services, which climbed 27.31 per cent. 

Three of the Bajaj Group stocks are heavily outperforming the market today

At 10.30 am on Thursday, the headline equity indices, i.e. Sensex and Nifty 50 were trading higher by almost a per cent each, despite the FED rate hikes.

Indices roared on Wednesday as strong buying at lower levels lifted market sentiment. Nifty surged 0.96 per cent to close above the 16,600 level while Sensex jumped about 550 points.