Indian shares flat after eight-day rally, analysts expect profit booking
Updates at 9:18 a.m. IST
BENGALURU, Aug 27 (Reuters) -Indian shares opened little changed on Tuesday, tracking a pause in a global rally on U.S. rate cut hopes, while analysts expected some profit booking after the recent rally.
The NSE Nifty 50 index .NSEI dropped a marginal 0.04% at 25,000.8 as of 9:18 a.m. IST. The S&P BSE Sensex .BSESN also dipped 0.04% to 81,672.04.
The indexes have risen about 3.6% in an eight-session rally, including about 0.75% rise on Monday after the Federal Reserve indicated it would start cutting interest rates from September, which is expected to reroute foreign funds to India.
There might be some profit booking early in the session as traders look to capitalise from the recent rally, according to two analysts.
Seven of the 13 major sectors dropped on the day. The more domestically focussed small- .NIFSMCP100 and mid-caps .NIFMDCP100 rose about 0.1% each.
Asian stocks fell about 0.5% as investors pondered the looming U.S. rate cuts and awaited earnings from AI darling Nvidia, while rising tensions in the Middle East and supply concerns checked risk sentiment and lifted oil prices. MKTS/GLOB
Brent crude LCOc1 prices held their ground after having jumped 7% in the past three sessions. Higher oil prices hurt net importers like India, where crude contributes a significant share of the country's import bill and could raise inflation. O/R
Reporting by Bharath Rajeswaran in Bengaluru; Editing by Varun H K and Savio D'Souza
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