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# Bullish traders unnerved as Nifty falls with a thud. Bank Nifty mirriors Niftyt’s fall. Nifty Reality tanks 1.40%. Massive Profit booking blamed.

The long and short of Nifty’s drubbing indicates Nifty bulls are non-committed and waiting some big real positive trigger.

NIFTY (-74, 24427)
Sensex (-271, 79810)
Bank Nifty (-165, 53656)

1) Nifty losing streak continues for 3rd straight day, ends 1.82% lower on weekly basis.

2) The street is struggling to climb the biggest ‘Wall of Worry’ of 50% Trump’s tariff to come into effect this August 27th?

3) The Federal Reserve will look at the incoming data points before slashing the rate on September 17th. The incoming data which we would like to spy with one big eye:

a) The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index (which is the Fed's preferred inflation gauge) will trickle in on Friday, August 29th.

b) The US Jobs report to be wired on Friday, September 5th.

# Technically speaking, Nifty’s major interweek/intermonth hurdles placed at 24155 mark and only above 24155, all eyes will be on June 30th high at 25670 mark.

Nifty’s immediate support seen at 24336 mark. Nifty’s major support placed at its 200 DMA at 24072 mark.

# Long Story Short: The bears are likely to be everywhere amidst return of risk?

# Adv-Dec 24—26
# INDIA VIX 11.75 (-3.53%)
# NIFTY PCR (02nd SEP) 0.54
# NIFTY PCR (30th SEP) 1.17
# USD/INR Futures (Sep) (+0.66%, 88.28)

# SECTOR GAINERS:
NIFTY FMCG (+0.95%)
NIFTY MEDIA (+0.35%)
NIFTY CONSUMER DURABLES (+0.15%)

# SECTORS LOSERS
NIFTY REALTY (-1.33%)
NIFTY OIL & GAS (-1.01%)
NIFTY AUTO (-0.88%)

# TODAY’S MARKET RE-CAP:

1) Nifty (-0.30%) gives away all of its intraday hard-fought gains, as concerns of Trump’s tariff hikes against India continues to be on the spotlight. Nifty continues to trade way below its 21 DMA (24709), 50 DMA (24998) and 100 DMA (24687) and most importantly, well below the psychological 25000 mark.

2) Bank Nifty (-0.31%) too joins the conga-line of falling sectoral indices and most importantly was seen mirroring Nifty’s weakness. Bank Nifty’s new all-time-high continues to be at 57628.40 mark

3) The market breadth (24:26) was equally balanced.

4) The Nifty Mid-cap (+0.22%) and Nifty Small-cap (-0.29%) indices witnessed an uninspiring session.

5) Amongst sectoral indices ending in red were NIFY REALITY (-1.26%), NIFTY OIL & GAS (-1%), NIFTY IT (-0.86%) while sectors ending in green were Nifty FMCG (+0.90%), NIFTY MEDIA (+0.41%) and NIFTY CPSE (+0.13%).

# Bottom-line: Nifty needs some real major positive catalyst to move up. Technically, confirmation of strength only above 25155 mark.

# STOCKS IN SPOTLIGHT:

1) Infosys slipped 2.07% even after the company announced a strategic collaboration with Mastercard to offer financial institutions enhanced access to Mastercard Move, its portfolio of money movement capabilities.

2) Indus Towers rebounded 1.5% after the company announced the appointment of Vineet Jain as the chief supply chain management officer (CSCMO) of the company, effective 3 September 2025.

# BULLS OF THE DAY:
ITC (+2.15%)
SHRIRAMFIN (+1.79%)
BEL (+1.53%)
L&T (+1.26%)
ASIANPAINTS (+1.25%)

# BEARS OF THE DAY:
M&M (-2.89%)
RELIANCE (-2.16%)
INFY (-2.07%)
APOLLOHOSP (-1.51%)
ADANIENT (-1.20%)

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