Indian equity benchmarks selling augmented towards the fag end of the week and in the process, we went on to slide below 17900 during Friday’s session.

Dear Trader… The SGX Nifty had indicated a soft opening for the new calendar year. However, our markets completely shrugged off these cues as they started the session marginally in the green on Monday. We did see some ambiguity in the first half; but with few heavyweights attracting strong buying