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Nifty 50 rose 0.6%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-21 · market close

Nifty 50 closed at 24,231.85 on 2026-08-20, rose 0.6% on the session and is -7.3% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Nifty 50 rose 0.64 per cent on August 20 to close at 24231.85, a session that, according to a headline from Upstox, snapped a seven-day losing streak for the index. The Sensex, India's other benchmark, gained 0.82 per cent on the same day, and a rediff.com headline described it as jumping over 500 points.

The rebound left the index in a mixed technical position. At 24231.85, the Nifty sat 7.96 per cent below its 52-week high of 26328.55 and 8.51 per cent above its 52-week low of 22331.4. It closed above its 50-day moving average of 24160.22 but stayed below its 200-day average of 24701.57 - a short-term recovery inside a longer stretch of weakness. The index was still down 0.67 per cent over the past week and 7.26 per cent for the year to date, though it held gains of 0.98 per cent over one month and 2.44 per cent over three.

Readings from peer markets came from two different dates, so not all of them describe the same session. Among markets whose latest close was also August 20, the picture abroad was weaker than India's: the S&P 500 fell 0.87 per cent, the Nasdaq lost 1.0 per cent and the Dow dropped 1.32 per cent, while in Europe the DAX slipped 0.42 per cent, the CAC 40 fell 0.57 per cent and the FTSE 100 was nearly flat, up 0.04 per cent. Asian closes from the same date were firmer - the Hang Seng added 0.8 per cent, Shanghai 0.24 per cent and the TAIEX 0.48 per cent. The Nikkei, KOSPI and ASX 200 figures were August 21 closes, a session later than the Nifty's: the Nikkei fell 0.91 per cent, the KOSPI rose 0.82 per cent and the ASX 200 eased 0.18 per cent.

The news around the move was mixed. A livemint.com headline asked why the market was up and pointed to reasons behind the rise without those reasons appearing in the available data, while an India Infoline headline from a day earlier had described the Sensex and Nifty falling amid rising crude oil prices and Middle East tensions. Separately, a Reuters headline from ten days earlier reported that BSE would replace Wipro in the Nifty 50 index.

Taken together, the data establishes the size of the move, the losing streak it ended and where the index sits in its range, but it does not establish a single driver for the session's gain.

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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.