Indian Equity market last week's performances: It's a weak performa...

Indian Equity market last week's performances: It's a weak performance.

Indian equity trade markets like Nifty and BSE open from Monday to Friday and remain closed for the weekend unless there is a holiday in the market on the occasion of any festival or days. Once the market crosses 24000, and there was the talks of the ceasefire on the 16th April , market rallied up. But whatever is gained again lost in the current week.

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So overall, over the past week (ending Friday, 24 April 2026), the Indian equity market had a clearly weak and volatile run.Nifty 50 fell about 1.9%, closing at 23,897.95. BSE Sensex dropped about 2.3%, ending at 76,664.21

This was one of the weakest weekly performances in over a month, and it also broke the recent two-week winning streak

Factors that are affecting the Indian market are still the same, and they are mostly contributed due to the external factors that are not in the control of the Indian Companies.

One of the major factors is rising crude oil prices and disruptions in crude oil supply. Again with daily different new surfacing, this is not at all helping Indian market as India is major importer of the oil. This has actually pressured sectors like paints, aviation, chemicals, and broader market sentiment. Even a European carrier like Lufthansa grounded flights due to surging jet fuel costs.

India is also a major exporter of IT services and in this sector first Trump taraiff hit and now the iterating versions of AI hit it harder. With expectation that AI will completely take over the developer role, so the future of companies providing development services is not very bright.

In all these uncertainties, FII is also taking out its money out. India domestic investor are actually picking up the equity that are getting in lower price due to FII selling but FII selling or investing is being reduced every day and it looks like the domestic market is not able to take this supply shock.

Though, it is the last week's performance review and analysis but underlying factor is still same. At the time of writing this post the latest news is "Trump cancels Witkoff and Kushner trip to Pakistan for talks" , so I am hoping more dipping in the coming week too.