The year 2026 has started. Talking about the financial sector, the stock market appears to be on a positive note. On the other hand, a decline in rupee is being seen. If we talk about gold and silver, both are seen doing flat business. The special thing is that in 2025, the rupee has disappointed the investors a lot. Last year, there was a decline of about 5 percent in the rupee. Whereas investors did not get any significant benefit in the stock market and a rise of 10 percent was seen in Nifty. Whereas Sensex has given a return of about 9 percent. Whereas gold and silver made investors rich. Such a rise in the prices of gold and silver had not been seen in the last 50 years. But now the question is of 2026. These three have started in their own way on the first day of the year. Let us try to understand from the data, how was the beginning of the first day of the year for these three assets?
Stock market starts on positive note
The stock market has made a positive start on the first day of the year 2026. There is a rise in both Sensex and Nifty. First of all, if we talk about the data of Sensex, the main index of Bombay Stock Exchange, it was seen trading at 85,444.14 points after rising by 223.54 points. At the same time, the main index of National Stock Exchange, Nifty, reached 26,195.35 points with a gain of 65.75 points.
Among the companies included in the Sensex, shares of InterGlobe Aviation, Mahindra & Mahindra, Eternal, Reliance Industries, Larsen & Toubro and UltraTech Cement were the biggest gainers. On the other hand, shares of ITC, Bharat Electronics, Trent and Bajaj Finance remained in loss. Asian markets will remain closed on Thursday. Whereas American markets closed with a decline on Wednesday.
In the international market, Brent crude oil of Gulf countries declined by 0.78 percent and was priced at $ 60.85 per barrel. According to stock market data, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were sellers on Wednesday and sold shares worth a net Rs 3,597.38 crore. Domestic institutional investors (DIIs) bought shares worth Rs 6,759.64 crore.
Beginning with the fall of rupee
2025 is over, but the trend of falling rupee has not ended; A fall in the rupee was also seen on the first day of 2026. Against the dollar, the rupee fell by 11 paise to 89.99 per dollar. Along with this, due to continuous withdrawal of foreign capital, the beginning of the new year was negative for the rupee. Foreign currency traders said that the rupee is entering 2026 with both challenges and security. Global uncertainty remains, although India’s strong macroeconomic factors and adequate foreign exchange reserves will continue to provide it stability.
In the Interbank Foreign Currency Exchange market, the rupee opened at 89.94 against the US dollar. Then it weakened slightly and reached 89.99 per dollar, which shows a decline of 11 paise from the previous closing price. The rupee had closed at 89.88 against the US dollar in the last trading session of 2025 on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the US dollar’s position against six major currencies, stood at 98.32, up 0.09 percent.
How is the price of gold and silver?
Both gold and silver are looking sluggish in the country’s futures market Multi Commodity Exchange. On the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold is trading at Rs 1,35,225 per ten grams, down by Rs 222 at 10.30 am. Whereas during the trading session, gold reached the day’s low level of Rs 1,35,208. However, a day ago there was a big fall in the price of gold and the price came down to Rs 1,35,447.
On the other hand, a decline in the price of silver is also being seen in the futures market. According to the data, silver is trading at Rs 2,34,921 per kg with a fall of Rs 780 at 10:30 am. However, during the trading session, silver fell by about Rs 850 and reached the level of Rs 2,34,855, which is the low of the day. On the last trading day of last year, silver had fallen significantly and closed at Rs 2,35,701.