BEL Bags ₹569 Cr Orders; Gold Rebounds From Two-Week Low – Paper by Pocketful
Market Recap: 30th December, 2025
📈 Top Gainers & Losers (Nifty 50)
🗞 Stock News Highlights
Honasa Consumer (+5.18%): Shares advanced after Varun Alagh’s ₹50 crore purchase of 0.6% stake, strengthening promoter control post listing and improving investor confidence.
Bharat Electronics (+0.01): Stock remained flat despite receiving additional orders worth ₹569 crore since December 12 across defence and electronics segments.
Timex Group India (+3.43%): Shares advanced after promoter exercised oversubscription option to sell additional 45.09 lakh shares, adding 4.47% stake in OFS.
Rail Vikas Nigam (-1.97%): Stock stayed in the red despite emerging as the lowest bidder for a ₹201.23 crore East Coast Railway wagon POH workshop project at Kantabanji.
🏢 Sectoral Performance
Metal | NIFTY Metal (+2.03%): Index rose on a global commodity rally, gaining 7% over the past month and 28% over the last year, led by Hindalco Industries, Hindustan Copper, and NALCO.
PSU Banks | Nifty PSU Bank (+2%): Index bounced from the day’s low with all constituents in green, aided by Punjab & Sind Bank’s move to strengthen capital through a ₹3,000 crore QIP.
India Defence | Nifty Defence (-1.09%): Sector slipped for a third session amid broad-based selling, overshadowing positive sentiment from ₹79,000 crore DAC approvals, with major losses in Hindustan Aeronautics, Solar Industries India, and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders.
Realty | Nifty Realty (-0.84%): Sector traded lower amid profit booking, with 2 stocks advancing while 8 constituents dragged, reflecting broad-based selling pressure across realty counters.
🔍 Market Insights
Technical Level: Nifty opened flat and saw high liquidity in the morning session, slipped after the open, then reversed in the next candle. The index traded range-bound, forming support near 25,880 and resistance around 25,980.
Advance-Decline Ratio: The broader market showed negative breadth today, with 1,409 stocks advancing and 1,723 declining, indicating cautious sentiment despite selective buying interest.
The Big Picture: Gold rebounded from a two-week low on renewed safe-haven demand; spot rose 1% near $4,375, while silver jumped 3.3% to $74.61 amid geopolitical risks and rate-cut expectations globally today markets.
FII/DII Activity (Dec 29, 2025): Heavy DII buying of ₹2,644 crore supported markets, even as FIIs sold ₹2,760 crore, keeping sentiment cautious.
🔮 Watch Out For Tomorrow
IPO Corner: Modern Diagnostic SME IPO opens tomorrow; investors may look at subscription trends, valuation, and growth prospects before applying.
Macro: USA FOMC Minutes & China NBS Manufacturing PMI (Dec) are scheduled for release tomorrow.
Index Watch: Nifty staged a pullback after four consecutive declining sessions but still closed negative, prompting investors to assess whether this move signals temporary relief buying or if Nifty fails to sustain this week and slips back toward previous support levels near the crucial 25,700 zone.
5 Day Course
Theme: Option Greeks Explained
Day 1 – Delta (Direction Risk)Day 1 – Delta (Direction Risk)
Delta measures how much an option’s price changes for a one-point move in the underlying, showing directional exposure and probability of finishing in-the-money at expiry.
Range:
Call: 0 to +1
Put: 0 to −1
Example:
Nifty = 20,000
Call option price = ₹100
Delta = 0.60
Calculation: If Nifty rises by ₹50 Option price change = 50 × 0.60 = ₹30 New option price ≈ ₹130
📝 Word Of The Day
Rug Pull- A sudden exit by project creators after attracting investors, causing prices to crash and leaving buyers with heavy losses—common in speculative and unregulated markets.
👀 Stay tuned. Stay diversified.
Until next time,
Team Pocketful.