Nifty Mar futures trade at discount

Published on Mar 15, 2022 16:52

The Nifty March 2022 futures were at 16,648.60, a discount of 14.4 points as compared with the Nifty`s closing of 16,663 in the cash market.

Turnover on the National Stock Exchange`s futures & options (F&O) segment was Rs 74.31 lakh crore compared with Rs 50.70 lakh crore reported in the previous session.

In the cash market, the Nifty 50 index declined 208.3 points or 1.23% to settle at 16,663.

The NSE`s India VIX, a gauge of market`s expectation of volatility over the near term, surged 4.09% at 25.73.

RIL, Tata Steel and ICICI Bank were the top traded individual stock futures contracts in F&O segment of NSE.

The March 2022 F&O contracts expire on 31 March 2022.