NIFTY50, SENSEX today: Wall Street cues, FII activity, key things to know before markets open on November 10

The Indian equity markets are set to open higher on Monday, November 10, as indicated by GIFT NIFTY futures. NIFTY futures at GIFT City in Ahmedabad advanced 33 points to 25,622 amid strong cues from Asian markets.

The Indian equity benchmarks fell for a third straight session on Friday amid weak global cues.

The SENSEX fell as much as 640 points and NIFTY50 index touched an intraday low of 25,318 dragged down by losses in index heavyweights like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Industries, ITC, HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, Hindustan Unilever and Tata Consultancy Services before staging recovery in late morning deals owing to buying interest in ICICI Bank, Bajaj Finance, Mahindra & Mahindra and Infosys.

Asian markets

Asian markets were trading higher on Monday on optimism that an end to the historic US government shutdown could be in sight, while the dollar was nursing losses from last week, news agency Reuters reported.

Japan's Nikkei rose 1%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng advanced 0.53%, South Korea's Kospi jumped 0.53% and Taiwan Weighted advanced 0.42%.

The US Senate on Sunday moved toward a vote on reopening the federal government, a day after Senate Majority Leader John Thune said bipartisan talks in the chamber to end the shutdown have taken a positive turn, Reuters report added.

Wall Street update

US stocks ended mixed on Friday as Nasdaq closed lower but the S&P 500 and the Dow eked out late-session gains on Friday as investors turned the page on a roller-coaster week with economic worries, the longest-ever federal government shutdown, and sky-high tech stock valuations dampening risk appetite.

Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.16%, S&P500 advanced 0.13% and tech heavy Nasdaq declined 0.21%.

FII/DII activity

Foreign institutional investors bought shares worth ₹4,581 crore on Friday while domestic institutional investors bought shares worth ₹6,675 crore, data from the National Stock Exchange showed.

The FIIs have so far this month sold shares worth ₹12,569 crore and for the calendar year they have been net sellers to the tune of ₹1,52,479 crore, according to the data from National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL).

Stocks to watch

The company's revenue from operations also surged 14% in the reporting quarter to ₹14,922 crore as compared to ₹13,127 crore on a year-on-year (YoY) basis.

Bajaj Auto said that strong performance across its business segments more than offset the impact of rare earth magnet supply constraints, which had affected the electric vehicle segment — previously the fastest-growing part of its portfolio. The company noted that this demonstrates the resilience and adaptability of its business model.

Trent's revenue from operations, in the July-September period, advanced 16% to ₹4,818 crore from ₹4,157 crore a year earlier.

Trent, which operates Zudio and Westlife stores, reported EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), also known as operating profit of ₹817 crore, up 27% from ₹646 crore in the year-ago period.

Its EBITDA margin expanded by 140 basis points to 17%.

The company's total expenses in the September quarter jumped 17% to ₹4,367 crore from ₹3,741 crore in the year-ago period.

IndiGo, which operates over 2,300 flights daily, is expanding its fleet by adding wide-body planes and currently has more than 5,300 pilots.

Currently, Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) is implemented at the airline.

The company, which made its debut at the global two-wheeler exhibition EICMA 2025 here unveiling six new products across ICE and electric powertrains, feels that with an expanding portfolio it is time for it to tap 'industrialised markets', Venu told PTI in an interview.

"I think it is the beginning of TVS' progress towards industrialised markets. Typically, we are focused on emerging markets," he said when asked about the company's focus on Europe.

This assumes significance in view of India's rising per capita demand, which is estimated to increase from around 1,500 Kwh at present to 4,680 Kwh by 2047, when the nation will be celebrating 100 years of Independence.

Addressing the golden Jubilee celebration of NTPC on Saturday evening, its CMD Gurdeep Singh said, "In line with India's ambitious capacity expansion roadmap, we have raised our own targets from 130 GW to 149 GW by 2032 and 244 GW by 2037."

The company posted a profit after tax of ₹47.65 crore in the July-September quarter of the last fiscal year.

Revenue increased to ₹657 crore for the second quarter of this financial year, as against ₹524 crore in the year-ago period, Olectra Greentech said in a statement.

NBCC is into project management consultancy and real estate.

In a statement on Saturday, the company announced that it has signed a broad framework Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pantheon Elysee Real Estate Development LLC, a prominent real estate player based in Dubai, UAE.

Real estate data analytics firm CRE Matrix has reviewed the registration document of this transaction.

The apartment was registered on September 29.

CRE Matrix has reported that three more residential properties were registered during September with a combined value of around Rs 176 crore.

Murmu kicked off her four-day state visit to the nation with a delegation-level meeting with Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço at the Presidential Palace here.

She said Indian companies were also "interested" in opportunities related to the exploration of critical and rare earth minerals, fertiliser production, and diamond processing.

Q2 earnings today

As many as 244 companies are slated to release their September quarter (Q2 FY26) numbers today. The list includes names such as Bajaj Finance, ONGC, Vodafone Idea, Solar Industries India, Authum Investment & Infrastructure, HUDCO, SJVN, Ather Energy, KEC International, Reliance Power, Kalpataru, C. E. Info Systems (MapmyIndia), HEG, Texmaco Infrastructure & Holdings, and BLS E-Services, among others.