NIFTY50, SENSEX today: Wall Street cues, FII activity, key things to know before markets open on January 20

The Indian equity benchmarks are set to stage a flat opening on Tuesday, January 20, as indicated by GIFT NIFTY futures. NIFTY futures at GIFT City in Ahmedabad fell 5 points to 25,590 amid weak cues from Asian markets.

The Indian equity benchmarks ended sharply lower in the previous session and resumed their downward journey after day's pause in the previous session dragged down by weakness in index heavyweights Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank as their December quarter earnings failed to enthuse investors. The SENSEX fell as much as 672 points and NIFTY50 index touched an intraday low of 25,494.

The benchmarks, however, staged a partial recovery in the second half of the session on the back of buying interest in Kotak Mahindra Bank, Hindustan Unilever and Bajaj Finance. The SENSEX ended 324 points lower at 83,246 and NIFTY50 index declined 109 points to settle at 25,585.

Asian markets

Most of the Asian markets were trading lower on Tuesday as Unites States President Donald Trump's Greenland tariffs reignited worries of trade wars across the world.

Japan's Nikkei fell 1.03%, China's Shanghai Composite declined 0.44%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.42% and South Korea's KOSPI fell 0.2%.

Overnight, US markets were closed on account of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

FII/DII activity

Foreign institutional investors sold shares worth ₹3,263 crore on Monday while domestic institutional investors bought shares worth ₹4,234 crore, data from the National Stock Exchange showed.

The FIIs have so far this month sold shares worth ₹27,073 crore, according to the data from National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL).

Q3 results today

An array of companies will post their quarterly numbers for the period ended December 31, 2025 on Tuesday, January 20.

They include global services and solutions company Persistent Systems, beverage company United Spirits, chemicals conglomerate SRF, scheduled commercial small finance bank AU Small Finance Bank, hospitality chain ITC Hotels, city gas distributor Gujarat Gas, microfinance institution CreditAccess Grameen, business conglomerate DCM Shriram and B2B marketplace Indiamart Intermesh.

Stocks to watch

European stocks slumped after Trump announced on Saturday that eight European allies would face increasing tariffs, starting at 10% on February 1 and rising to 25% on June 1, if a deal is not reached that allows Washington to “buy” Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory that’s part of Denmark.

In the overnight trade, European carmakers and the luxury goods sector were hit hard. "The Stoxx Europe 600 Automobiles & Parts Index was 2.22% lower. Volkswagen slumped about 2.82%, while Porsche fell 2.68%, paring some earlier losses, and BMW shed almost 3.74%," CNBC reported.

It had clocked a net profit of ₹41.6 crore in the October-December period of the preceding financial year, the company said in an exchange filing.

The company's total income rose to ₹1,030.9 crore from ₹925.7 crore logged in the year-ago third quarter.

Mumbai-based Aurum PropTech had posted a net loss of ₹8.52 crore in the year-ago period.

Total income jumped to ₹124.55 crore in the third quarter of this fiscal year, from ₹70.23 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year, according to a regulatory filing.

"Q3 FY26 represents a pivotal moment in Aurum PropTech's journey, as we transitioned from an adjusted EBITDA-positive position to delivering a PAT-positive outcome," Onkar Shetye, Executive Director of Aurum PropTech, said.

Its net profit stood at ₹618.38 crore in the year-ago period.

Total income rose to ₹1,561.74 crore in the third quarter of this fiscal year from ₹1,460.27 crore a year ago, according to a regulatory filing.

The company has declared a third interim dividend for 2025-26 at ₹2 per equity share, which is 20% of the face value of equity shares of ₹10 each.

The company had posted a PAT of ₹922 crore in the corresponding period last fiscal.

Net total income rose 33% to ₹3,594 crore during the quarter under review, from ₹2,711 crore a year ago, Tata Capital said in a regulatory filing.

Also, net interest income improved by 26% to ₹2,936 crore in Q3FY26 from around ₹2,323 crore logged a year earlier.

Assets under management (net) rose 26% to ₹2,34,114 crore as against ₹1,86,404 crore in the year-ago period.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan have set a $200 billion annual trade target by 2032 while laying out a broad agenda to shore up the ties.

Under the defence partnership, India and the UAE are eyeing defence industrial collaboration and cooperation in advanced technologies, cyberspace training, special operations, interoperability of their militaries, and counterterrorism.

Another pact was inked to provide for the purchase of 0.5 million metric tonnes of LNG (liquefied natural gas) by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Gas over a period of 10 years starting in 2028.

The UAE is India's second-largest supplier of LNG to India after Qatar.

The company had posted a consolidated net profit of ₹277.96 crore in the October-December quarter a year ago, according to a regulatory filing from Havells India.

Its revenue from operations was up 14.3% to ₹5,587.89 crore in the December quarter. It was ₹4,888.98 crore in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.

"The quarter witnessed strong operating leverage driven by revenue growth and disciplined spending," said Havells in its earnings update.

The company had reported a net profit (attributable to shareholders) of ₹1,085 crore in the same period a year ago.

LTIMindtree accounted for a ₹590 crore one-time cost due to the implementation of the new Labour Codes announced by the government in November 2025.