Nifty March futures trade at discount

Published on Mar 10, 2022 16:17

The Nifty March 2022 futures were at 16,566.35, a discount of 28.55 points as compared with the Nifty`s closing of 16,594.90 in the cash market.

Turnover on the National Stock Exchange`s futures & options (F&O) segment was Rs 224.71 lakh crore compared with Rs 89.27 lakh crore reported in the previous session.

In the cash market, the Nifty 50 index rose 249.55 points or 1.53% to settle at 16,594.90.

The NSE`s India VIX, a gauge of market`s expectation of volatility over the near term, dropped 6.86% at 25.5825.

Tata Steel, Reliance Industries (RIL) and ICICI Bank were the top traded individual stock futures contracts in F&O segment of NSE.

The March 2022 F&O contracts expires on 31 March 2022.