Morning brief: Friday, 16 October 2026

Good morning. This is the Xflot market brief for Friday, 16 October 2026. Market data read aloud, not advice.

In the last session, yesterday, the Nifty 50 closed at 22,997, up 1.7 percent, the Nifty Bank closed at 55,811, up 0.9 percent and the Nifty Midcap 150 closed at 21,756, down 0.3 percent. On NSE, 980 stocks rose and 1,912 fell.

Foreign portfolio investors sold a net 5,285 crore rupees and domestic institutions bought a net 3,319 crore rupees in the cash market, by provisional exchange data.

Among stocks that traded at least five crore rupees, the biggest gainers were Rays of Belief - For Profit Social Enterprise FPSE, up 19.2 percent, Modi Naturals, up 15.0 percent and Orient Electric, up 13.4 percent; the biggest fallers were Yes Bank, down 14.5 percent, West Coast Paper Mills, down 12.6 percent and Avalon Technologies, down 10.3 percent.

On the IPO calendar — closing today: Fusion CX and Ravita Engineering Services. Grey market figures, where the site shows them, are unofficial.

5 companies have a board meeting on results today, including Bajaj Housing Finance, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals, Paushak, The Federal Bank and Ujjivan Small Finance Bank.

4 record dates fall today, for dividends, splits, bonuses or rights.

That's the brief. Every figure comes from the exchanges and company filings, and the full tables are at xflot.com. Xflot is not registered with SEBI; nothing here is a recommendation.