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Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE Updates: The Indian stock market is set to hold the special Muhurat trading session today, 21 October 2025, on the occasion of Diwali 2025. The Muhurat trading session is an annual ritual, considered highly auspicious, and marks the beginning of the new Hindu calendar year, or Vikram Samvat.

Muhurat trading session is a symbolic one-hour trading session conducted by the Indian stock exchanges and the commodity exchanges. This year, the BSE, NSE, MCX and NCDEX will mark the start of Samvat 2082.

A Block deal session will start at 1:15 pm and will close at 1:45 pm. Thereafter, a pre-open session for IPOs and relisted securities will be done from 1:30 pm to 1:45 pm. After that, a normal Muhurat trading session will start from 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm.

The Indian stock market is expected to open higher on Tuesday in the Muhurat trading session amid positive global market cues. Asian markets traded higher, while the US stock market rallied overnight.

In the previous session, the Indian stock market ended higher, extending its winning streak for the fourth consecutive session. The Sensex and Nifty 50 gained over half a percent each on Monday.

Stay tuned to our Muhurat Trading 2025 Live Blog for the latest updates.

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: JM Financial has announced 12 Muhurat trading picks for Diwali 2025. These stocks to buy include:

>Maruti Suzuki India

>Fiem Industries

>Axis Bank

> L&T Finance

>IIFL Finance

>Apollo Hospitals Enterprise

>Lloyds Metals & Energy

>Ratnamani Metals & Tubes

>Brainbees Solutions

>Anant Raj

>Eureka Forbes

>Astral

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: While the near-to-medium term trend for domestic equity markets could be volatile, given global economic uncertainty, geo-political tensions and the pending outcome of the US-India tariff settlement, we expect select PSU counters to maintain optimism through Samvat 2082. With interest rates expected to come down further going ahead and the government’s focus on boosting consumption post GST rate cut coupled with income-tax benefits to salaried class, we expect PSU banking stocks to stay in limelight on hopes of strong demand for loans, said Navjeet Sobti of Almondz Global.

Sobti added that he expects select PSU counters in the power sector to attract strong buying going ahead amid the government’s move to accelerate spending on transmission, renewable energy, etc. While FII flows in domestic equities have been extremely volatile over the past few months, any positive outcome to the US-India trade deal and likely uptick in corporate earnings should revive overseas investors’ interest in local equities.

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: The single major factor in India’s huge underperformance Samvat 2081 is the sharp decline in earnings growth to 5% in FY25 from average 24% during the three years before that. Since “in the long run the market is a slave of earnings” the major trend, going forward, will depend on how earnings growth pans out, said Dr. VK Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist, Geojit Investments Limited.

The fiscal and monetary reforms implemented this year have started showing results. Particularly, the sales of automobiles and white goods have shot up early this festive season and, if this trend sustains, earnings growth will be good at around 8% to 10% in FY26, accelerating to around 15 % in FY27.

If this expectation materialises, the market will rally in Samvat 2082 compensating for the underperformance of Samvat 2081. In the short run the market may get a leg up from a possible India-US trade deal, but the long-term trend will be dictated by earnings growth, he added.

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: Palak Shah, Vice President - Institutional Sales, PL Capital has recommended four ‘quality’ stocks to buy on Muhurat trading session. Here are the stock picks:

> Kotak Mahindra Bank

> ICICI bank

> Larsen & Toubro

> Britannia Industries

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: Key stocks to watch in Muhurat trading session today:

State Bank of India: SBI raised ₹7,500 crore through the issuance of non-convertible Tier 2 bonds in the nature of debentures, at a coupon rate of 6.93%.

Axis Bank: RBI approved the appointment of Neeraj Gambhir as Executive Director of Axis Bank for a period of three years, effective October 20.

National Securities Depository Ltd: SEBI accepted the Revised Settlement Terms (RST) recommended by the NSDL’s High-Powered Advisory Committee (HPAC).

Marathon Nextgen Realty: The company has announced a joint venture with Adani Realty for an office and retail development in Mumbai - Monte South Commercial - with an estimated Gross Development Value (GDV) of ₹3,400 crore.

Precision Wires India: The Board has approved the allotment of 27.67 lakh equity shares at ₹151 apiece (total value: ₹41.78 crore) to non-promoter group category, upon conversion of an equivalent number of warrants.

Manali Petrochemicals: Overseas subsidiary AMCHEM SG has entered into a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) with COIM S.p.A. – Chimica Organica Industriale Milanese for the proposed sale of its entire stake in Notedome, UK, a step-down subsidiary of MPL.

Unimech Aerospace and Manufacturing: The company commissioned two new manufacturing facilities in Bengaluru, expanding its manufacturing footprint to approximately 2,43,000 sq ft.

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: US stock market ended higher on Monday, led by gains in finance and technology shares.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 515.97 points, or 1.12%, to 46,706.58, while the S&P 500 gained 71.12 points, or 1.07%, to 6,735.13. The Nasdaq Composite closed 310.57 points, or 1.37%, higher at 22,990.54.

Apple share price jumped 3.94% to hit a record high, while Amazon shares gained 1.61%, Meta stock price rallied 2.13%, Netflix shares surged 3.27% and Alphabet share price gained 1.28%. Nvidia share price fell 0.32% and Tesla stock price rose 1.85%.

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: Asian markets traded higher on Tuesday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street, with the Japanese market indices hitting record highs. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan hit an over four-and-half-year high and was last up 0.94%.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 rallied 1.46% to a fresh record, and the Topix also gained 0.48% to hit a record high. South Korea’s Kospi index jumped 1.9%, while the Kosdaq rose 0.52%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rallied 1.17% and CSI 300 was 0.3% higher.

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: The Muhurat trading session is an annual ritual, considered highly auspicious, and marks the beginning of the new Hindu calendar year, or Vikram Samvat.

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: The Diwali Muhurat trading session will be held in the Indian stock market today. A Block deal session will start at 1:15 pm and will close at 1:45 pm. Thereafter, a pre-open session for IPOs and relisted securities will be done from 1:30 pm to 1:45 pm. After that, a normal Muhurat trading session will start from 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm.

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: Muhurat trading session is a symbolic one-hour trading session conducted by the Indian stock exchanges and the commodity exchanges. This annual ritual is considered highly auspicious by market participants. On this day, investors engage in trading to celebrate the beginning of the new Hindu calendar year, or Samvat, with the belief that buying equities during this period brings prosperity. This year, the BSE, NSE, MCX and NCDEX will mark the start of Samvat 2082.

Muhurat Trading 2025 LIVE: The Indian stock market is set to hold the special Muhurat trading session today, 21 October 2025, on the occasion of Diwali 2025. The Muhurat trading session is an annual ritual, considered highly auspicious, and marks the beginning of the new Hindu calendar year, or Vikram Samvat.

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