Muhurat Trading 2026: Sensex, Nifty edge lower; key sectors to watch - Business Today

The headline reports that the benchmark Indian indices, the BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty, edged lower during the Muhurat trading session, a symbolic one-hour window held on Diwali that typically features thin volumes and ceremonial rather than conviction-driven trading. The primary transmission channel here is liquidity and positioning rather than fundamentals, since the abbreviated session with reduced participation tends to amplify small order-flow imbalances and makes modest index moves less informative about the broader trend. Large-cap heavyweights in the Sensex and Nifty, particularly financials, which carry the highest index weights, are the most mechanically exposed to such moves, while sector-level rotation in the names the headline flags as key to watch would likely show up more clearly than the headline index change. Traders should watch the first full regular session after the holiday and the subsequent movement in banking and index-heavy sectors, as that session will reveal whether the softness reflects holiday-specific thinness or a genuine shift in risk appetite.

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