Nifty January futures trade at premium; India VIX spurts 21%

Published on Jan 24, 2022 17:10

The Nifty January 2022 futures was at 17,102.30, a premium of 46.80 points as compared with the Nifty`s closing of 17,149.10 in the cash market.

Turnover on the National Stock Exchange`s futures & options (F&O) segment was Rs 86.42 lakh crore compared with Rs 59.69 lakh crore reported in the previous session.

In the cash market, the Nifty 50 index fell 468.05 points or 2.66% to settle at 17,149.10.

The NSE`s India VIX, a gauge of market`s expectation of volatility over the near term, soared 20.84% at 22.8250.

Reliance Industries (RIL), Infosys and ICICI Bank 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.