In our previous weekly note, we had projected the market to show limited upsides and talked about the possibility of Nifty slipping into the consolidation mode. The week gone by remained quite volatile and Nifty oscillated in a violent and volatile way for the first four days of the week, showing no clear directional bias.
Just when it was consolidating on the expected lines and in a defined range, a spike in US bond yields on Thursday caused severe weakness in the market on the last day of the week, turning it into one of the worst performances in recent times. At the end, the headline Nifty50 Index ended with a net loss of 462 points, or 3.02 per cent, on a weekly basis.