Indian benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty 50 are expected to open on a flat note on June 20, taking cues from GIFT Nifty, which was trading near 24,805 earlier this morning.

Today’s market movement is likely to be influenced by a blend of global and domestic factors, including Japan’s inflation data, China’s loan prime rate decision, rising tensions between Israel and Iran, India’s foreign exchange reserves data, and institutional investor activity.

On June 19, Indian equity markets ended slightly lower after a volatile session, with the Nifty closing below the 24,800 mark amid broad-based sectoral selling, except in the auto space.

The 30-share benchmark index ended at 81361.87 down by -82.79 points or by -0.1 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24793.25 down by -18.8 points or by -0.08 %.

On the global front, Asia-Pacific markets were mixed on Friday as investors digested key lending rate decisions from China and monitored rising tensions between Israel and Iran.

Japan’s Nikkei was up 0.27 per cent, while the broader Topix remained flat.

Elsewhere in Asia, South Korea’s Kospi, after an early uptick, slipped into the red, down 0.014 per cent, while Australia’s ASX 200 also reversed gains to trade 0.37 per cent lower.

In the US, stock futures slipped during Asian hours as investors assessed the latest developments in the Middle East. Wall Street remained closed overnight for the Juneteenth holiday.

Back home, The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4404 , shares advanced were 1005 while 3235 shares declined and 164 were unchanged.

On NSE, total number of shares traded was 403.76 Crore and total turnover stood at Rs. 90377.46 Crore.

On NSE Future and Options, total number of contracts traded in index futures was 107583 with a total turnover of Rs. 19358.82 Crore. Along with this total number of contracts traded in stock futures were 1364018 with a total turnover of Rs. 85957.25 Crore. Total numbers of contracts for index options were 266518179 with a total turnover of Rs. 49521017.66 Crore. and total numbers of contracts for stock options were 8175795 with a total turnover of Rs. 545632.79 Crore.

The FIIs on 19/06/2025 stood as net buyer in equity and debt. Gross equity purchased stood at Rs. 11210.41 Crore and gross debt purchased stood at Rs. 569.04 Crore, while the gross equity sold stood at Rs. 11808.00 Crore and gross debt sold stood at Rs. 592.99 Crore. Therefore, the net investment of equity and debt reported were Rs. -597.59 Crore and Rs. -23.95