{"id":68605,"date":"2026-01-13T03:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/13\/indian-shares-likely-to-open-on-positive-note-5\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:07:56","slug":"indian-shares-likely-to-open-on-positive-note-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/13\/indian-shares-likely-to-open-on-positive-note-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Shares Likely To Open On Positive Note"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indian shares are likely to open higher Tuesday morning, tracking positive cues from Wall Street, and gains in Asian markets<\/span>. Tariff concerns may limit market’s upside.<\/p>\n

The focus will be earnings announcements. Investors will also be reacting to the inflation data released after trading hours on Monday.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that any country that does business<\/span> with Iran will now have to pay a 25% tariff on all trade with the United States. The move is likely to significantly hurt India, China, the UAE and Turkey, some of the major trading partners of Iran.<\/p>\n

Tata Consultancy Services reported a 14% drop in consolidated net profit for the quarter ended December 2025, compared to its net profit in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.<\/p>\n

HCL Technologies reported an 11% fall in consolidated net profit for the December quarter from the year-ago quarter.<\/p>\n

Anand Rathi Wealth posted a near 30% jump in consolidated net profit in the third quarter of fiscal year 2025-26, at Rs 99.77 crore, compared to Rs 76.95 crore a year ago.<\/p>\n

ICICI Prudential, Indian Bank, Maharashtra Bank, Orient Hotels, Tata Elxsi and Just Dial are scheduled to announce their quarterly earnings today.<\/p>\n

On the economic front, data released by the government after trading hours on Monday showed the consumer price inflation rate in India rose to 1.33% in December from 0.71% in the earlier month. Despite the second consecutive increase, the inflation rate remained sharply below the Reserve Bank of India’s tolerance limit of 2%-6%. <\/p>\n

India’s consumer prices edged up 0.05% month-over-month in December 2025, following a 0.3% increase in November.<\/p>\n

Indian shares pared early losses and moved higher past mid afternoon to end on a firm note on Monday, after five successive days of declines. The market opened on a weak note amod concerns about U.S. tariffs, and rising geopolitical tensions, but a conciliatory tone on India-U.S. trade ties by Sergio Gor, the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to India, presumably helped ease tariff concerns and pulled the market out of the red.<\/p>\n

The benchmark BSE Sensex settled with a gain of 301.93 points or 0.36% at 83,878.17, more than 1,000 points off the day’s low of 82,861.07. The National Stock Exchange’s Nifty50, which dropped to a low of 25,473.40, settled at 25,790.25, gaining 106.95 points or 0.42%.<\/p>\n

Most of the markets across the Asia-Pacific region are up in positive territory today with strong gains.<\/p>\n

On Wall Street, the major averages closed higher on Monday amid optimism about the outlook for interest rates.<\/p>\n

The Dow moved up 0.2%, the Nasdaq climbed 0.3%, and the S&P 500 settled with a 0.2% gain. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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