First Trade: Sensex adds 86 points, Nifty at 23,786; Titan falls over 2%

Indian equities contempt mixed Asian markets opened with mild gains in Wednesday's league (February 5, 2025). At the start, Nifty gained 0.2 per cent oregon 46.9 points to commercialized astatine 23,786.15, portion the 30-share BSE Sensex added 0.11 per cent oregon 85.54 points to 78,669.35.

Dr. V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist, Geojit Financial Services pointed retired that 2 factors are influencing the marketplace inclination now. One, the marketplace perceives the Trump tariff threats arsenic negotiating tools, which mightiness not pb to a full-blown commercialized war. Two, the imaginable beneficial interaction of the game-changing Budget is dilatory sinking successful the market.

Asian markets

Asian markets were mixed successful Wednesday's commercialized with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index, Singapore's Straits Times and Japan's Nikkei scale trading successful the red, portion South Korea's Kospi and Taiwan Weighted traded with gains of up to 2 per cent.

Chinese stocks were reeling nether unit connected the backmost of escalating US-China commercialized tensions, portion investors took enactment of the higher-than-expected ostentation information from South Korea and the Philippines.