Four-Year Yield High, Rate Hike Looms — This Rally Runs on DII Muscle, Not Conviction
Large-caps advanced while smallcaps flatlined and FIIs kept selling. The SBI chairman's 50 bps hike call makes today's green close look borrowed, not earned.
Nifty 50 closed at 22524.4 with the frontline looking commanding — 32 advances against 15 declines. But scan down the capitalisation ladder and the picture flattens fast: Nifty Smallcap 250 barely broke even, with an advance-decline ratio of 1.02. India VIX settled at 17.16, extending a steady climb from 14.63 just two weeks ago. The index is up; the conviction isn't.
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