Stock markets end marginally lower in special Muhurat trading, snapping 7-day rally

Indian equity benchmarks closed marginally lower during the one-hour special Muhurat trading session, ending a seven-day winning streak. The move is best understood as a modest profit-booking and positioning effect rather than a shift in fundamentals, since a short ceremonial session with thin volumes tends to amplify small net flows into or out of large-cap index constituents. Exposure is concentrated in heavyweight domestic names and index futures, where even small rebalancing by institutional and retail participants can move the headline indices, while broader sector transmission through rate expectations or foreign capital flows is limited within a single hour of trade. Traders will look to the first full regular session after the holiday and to the next scheduled domestic inflation and monetary policy communications for confirmation of whether the seven-day rally has room to extend.

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