All You Need To Know Going Into Trade On Dec. 24

Most share indices were trading slightly down in early Tuesday morning in Asia-Pacific. The Nikkei 225 and Kospi were trading 0.21% and 0.12% down, respectively. The S&P ASX 200 was 0.06% higher as of 7:30 a.m.

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On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 ended 0.16% and 0.73% higher, respectively. The Nasdaq 100 ended 0.98% higher.

The brent crude was trading 0.36% higher at $72.89 a barrel as of 7:32 a.m. The Bloomberg spot gold was 0.23% higher at $2,618.51 as of 7:33 a.m.

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The GIFT Nifty was trading 0.12% or 28 points down at 23,774.40 as of 7:30 a.m.

Two of the three main US stock market indices opened in the green on Monday, marking a positive start to the Christmas-shortened trading week.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.51% to trade at 19,671.93. The broader index, S&P 500, surged as much as 0.23% to 5,944.60.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.26% to 42,730.30.

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Brent crude was trading 1.25% lower at $72.03 a barrel, while gold spot was trading 0.26% down at $2,615.97 an ounce as of 12:02 p.m. EST.

Benchmark equity indices tracked the gains in US and Asian markets to close higher on the first session of Christmas week. Before today, both the indices had lost nearly 5% last week.

Nifty ended 0.7% or 165.95 points up at 23753.45, and Sensex closed 0.64% or 498.58 points higher at 78540.17.

Overseas investors stayed net sellers for the sixth consecutive day and offloaded stocks worth approximately Rs 168.71 crore on Monday, while domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the fifth straight day and bought stocks worth Rs 2,227.68 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.