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Nifty 50 edged up 0.0%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-05 · market close

Nifty 50 closed at 24,624.65 on 2026-08-05, edged up 0.0% on the session and is -5.8% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Nifty 50 finished the 5 August 2026 session at 24,624.65, up 0.04% on the day. That is about as close to unchanged as a benchmark gets, and the move carried no real direction of its own.

The flat close left the index in the middle of its own recent range. It was 6.47% below its 52-week high of 26,328.55 and 10.27% above its 52-week low of 22,331.40. It closed above its 50-day moving average of 23,956.04 but below its 200-day average of 24,771.96 — moving averages simply smooth the last 50 and 200 sessions into one line, so the index sat above its shorter-term trend and below the longer one. Over the past week it added 1.54%, over the past month 0.93% and over three months 1.21%. For the calendar year so far, though, it was still down 5.76%.

Peer markets in the pack do not all share the same closing date, so they cannot be read as one simultaneous session. Among those also marked 5 August, India's other benchmark, the Sensex, rose 0.19%. In the West the picture split: the Dow gained 0.75% while the S&P 500 slipped 0.14% and the Nasdaq fell 0.64%. Europe was similarly mixed, with the FTSE 100 up 0.08% and the CAC 40 up 0.03%, against the DAX down 0.29% and the Euro Stoxx 50 down 0.15%.

The remaining Asia-Pacific peers carry an earlier date, 4 August — a different trading day, not the same session as the Nifty's close. On that day the KOSPI rose 1.62% and the ASX 200 1.4%, with Shanghai up 0.33% and the Nikkei up 0.32%. The TAIEX eased 0.06% and the Hang Seng lost 0.6%.

On the news side, a headline from livemint.com reported that the Sensex gained 150 points and the Nifty 50 ended flat above 24,600 after the Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee left interest rates unchanged. An earlier headline from Upstox reported the index opening at 24,669 with the Sensex up more than 600 points amid lower crude oil prices, naming IndiGo and L&T among the leading gainers. Separately, Business Standard reported that Sebi sees no immediate need to review the new stock closing auction, and livemint.com covered what the changed closing timings mean for index funds, ETFs and arbitrage funds.

What the evidence does not do is pin the session on one cause. A rate decision that changed nothing, a firmer open that faded to a flat finish, and peers pulling both ways across two different dates: the data records a quiet day and where the index stands in its range, and nothing firmer.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.