Stock Market News Live: GIFT Nifty Indicates Muted Open; BEL, Tata Steel, Wipro, Swiggy, Paytm Shares In Focus

• The US Dollar index is down 0.03% at 98.37.

• Euro was down 0.02% at 1.1738.

• Pound was down 0.04% at 1.3366.

• Yen was up 0.13% at 155.61.

Asian stocks opened lower in the final full trading week of 2025, as growing doubts about the earnings outlook for technology companies — and the scale of their spending on artificial intelligence — weighed on risk appetite.

MSCI Inc.’s gauge of regional equities slid 0.4%, with South Korean shares — a bellwether for AI optimism — tumbling more than 2%. Futures tied to major US equity indexes swung between modest gains and losses on Monday, following a Wall Street session on Friday where technology stocks led declines. Bitcoin edged lower to trade near $88,000, extending a slide that has seen the cryptocurrency fall in six of the past seven weeks, reports Bloomberg.

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The GIFT Nifty was trading above 26,000 early on Monday. The futures contract based on the benchmark Nifty 50 fell 0.31% at 26,053 as of 7:10 a.m. indicating a muted start for the Indian markets.

In the previous session on Friday, the benchmark equity extended their gains for the second day. The NSE Nifty 50 ended 148.40 points or 0.57% higher at 26,046.95, while the BSE Sensex closed 449.53 points or 0.53% higher at 85,267.66.