Nifty January futures trade at premium; India VIX spurts 7%

Published on Jan 05, 2022 16:25

The Nifty January 2022 futures was at 17,946.20, a premium of 20.95 points as compared with the Nifty`s closing of 17,925.25 in the cash market.

Turnover on the National Stock Exchange`s futures & options (F&O) segment was Rs 99.83 lakh crore compared with Rs 70.41 lakh crore reported in the previous session.

In the cash market, the Nifty 50 index rose 120 points or 0.67% to settle at 17,925.25.

The NSE`s India VIX, a gauge of market`s expectation of volatility over the near term, jumped 6.87% at 17.2275.

Reliance Industries (RIL), Infosys and Bajaj Finance were the top traded individual stock futures contracts in F&O segment of NSE.

The January 2022 F&O contracts expires on 27 January 2022.