Nifty January futures trade at premium; India VIX spurts 4%

Published on Jan 06, 2022 16:17

The Nifty January 2022 futures was at 17,799.75, a premium of 53.85 points as compared with the Nifty`s closing of 17,745.90 in the cash market.

Turnover on the National Stock Exchange`s futures & options (F&O) segment was Rs 177.57 lakh crore compared with Rs 99.83 lakh crore reported in the previous session.

In the cash market, the Nifty 50 index fell 179.35 points or 1% to settle at 17,745.90.

The NSE`s India VIX, a gauge of market`s expectation of volatility over the near term, jumped 4.35% at 17.9775.

Reliance Industries (RIL), Infosys and Bharti Airtel 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.