NIFTY50, SENSEX today: Wall Street cues, FII activity, key things to know before markets open on April 6

The Indian equity benchmarks are set to open lower on Monday, April 6, as indicated by GIFT NIFTY futures. NIFTY futures at GIFT City in Ahmedabad dropped 90 points or 0.4% to 22,676 amid positive cues from Asian markets.

The Indian equity benchmarks staged a strong recovery from intraday low levels on Thursday, April 2, as sentiment turned positive after Indian rupee staged a strong rebound against the dollar from record low levels on likely intervention by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The SENSEX climbed as much as 2,023 points from the day's lowest level and NIFTY50 index touched an intraday high of 22,685 after hitting a low of 22,182.55.

The SENSEX ended 185 points higher at 73,320 and NIFTY50 index advanced 34 points to close at 22,713.

Asian markets

Most of the markets in Asia were closed on account of holiday on Monday. South Korea's KOSPI advanced 3% and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index gained 0.2%.

Meanwhile, crude oil prices gained in global markets after US President Donald Trump vowed "hell" if Tehran does not meet his deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Brent Crude futures rose as much as 2.43% to $111 per barrel.

Wall Street update

US markets shook off an early stumble to finish with slim gains on Wall Street on Thursday and close out their first winning week since the start of the Iran war.

Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.13%, S&P 500 rose 0.11% and tech heavy Nasdaq rose 0.2%.

FII/DII activity

Foreign institutional investors sold shares worth ₹9,931 crore on Thursday while domestic institutional investors bought shares worth ₹7,208 crore, data from the National Stock Exchange showed.

Stocks to watch

The makers, such as Marico, Dabur, and AWL Agri Business (formerly Adani Wilmar), have reported growth in both volumes and value, driven by pricing actions, category momentum, and resilient domestic consumption and growth from international markets except the conflict area.

Makers expect margins to improve as inflation eases; however, they remain cautiously optimistic about the coming quarters. They expect the trend of domestic demand recovery to continue, aided by stable macroeconomic conditions and improving consumption trends.

Its total advances were ₹26.43 lakh crore at the end of March 31, 2025, HDFC Bank said in a regulatory filing.

The lender reported a 14.4% rise in total deposits to ₹31.05 lakh crore from ₹27.14 lakh crore at the end of the fourth quarter of the preceding financial year.

During the period, CASA deposits recorded a growth of 12.3% to ₹10.6 lakh crore compared to ₹9.4 lakh crore in the year-ago period, it said.

The bank's period-end time deposits were approximately ₹20.45 lakh crore as of March 31, 2026, a growth of around 15.5% over ₹17.7 lakh crore as of March 31, 2025.

This comes amid Hindustan Copper's aggressive expansion plans in mining operations. It operates the country's sole vertically integrated refined copper facility, handling exploration, mining, beneficiation, smelting, refining, and casting operations.

Coal India had offered 32.532 million tonnes of coal through e-auction in March against 20.5 million tonnes in February this year.

The state-run coal producer plans to offer coal through the Single Window Mode Agnostic (SWMA) auction. SWMA auction is a unified, simplified e-auction system launched in 2022 to consolidate multiple existing auction windows (Spot, Special Spot, Forward) into a single platform, making coal procurement easier, more transparent, and market-driven for all buyers.

The lender reported a 12% rise in total deposits to ₹3.46 lakh crore from ₹3.1 lakh crore logged at the end of the fourth quarter of the preceding financial year.

The total business of the bank increased 14% to ₹6 lakh crore compared to ₹5.28 lakh crore at the end of March 31, 2025.

However, the bank's low-cost CASA (current account savings account) ratio declined to 28.4% of the total deposits from 29.2% at the end of March 2025.

Total deposits rose 10% year-on-year to ₹1,66,344 crore at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025-26 against ₹1,51,212 crore in the corresponding period last year and were up 6.1% from ₹1,56,724 crore in the previous quarter.

Retail deposits, including CASA, climbed 17.7% year-on-year to ₹1,22,547 crore, while retail term deposits surged 30.1% to ₹73,796 crore. The retail-to-total deposits ratio improved to 73.67% from 68.88% a year earlier, the bank said in the filing.

The project, spread across 28.6 acres, will have a total saleable area of 10.36 million square feet and an estimated revenue potential of over Rs 9,500 crore, Prestige said in a regulatory filing on Friday.

Ticket sizes range between ₹1 crore and ₹3 crore.

According to its regulatory filing on Friday, Sobha Ltd has achieved its highest-ever annual sales bookings of ₹8,135.9 crore during the 2025-26 fiscal year from ₹6,276.5 crore in the preceding year.

In the oil and gas segment, Vedanta's average daily gross operated production dropped 15% during the March quarter to 81,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd).

While the production of saleable iron ore dropped 3% during the quarter, the saleable steel output during the quarter declined marginally by 1%, the company said in a regulatory filing.

In a statement, the company said that it remains focused on driving efficiency, scale, and long-term value creation.