Indian stock market slides, but 28 Nifty 500 stocks hit fresh 1-year highs this week; MCX, PVR Inox among them
Indian markets moved lower.
25 Sept 2026 · LiveMint Markets
The Nifty 50 index experienced its biggest decline since 2020, down 0.88% over the last week. Despite a wider market sell-off, stocks like Welspun Corp and Zydus Lifesciences reached new peaks, highlighting selective investor interest amid high crude oil prices and global bond yield fluctuations.
The analysis
This is an Input cost / crude event. India imports most of its crude, so input costs pass through to margins downstream and to the rupee. Producers and consumers of the same input move in opposite directions.
Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.
Market context
- This is a market-wide development — its reach goes beyond any single stock.
- The immediate tone of coverage reads negative.