India's NSE Nifty 50 and S&P BSE Sensex are trailing only Wall Street's Nasdaq and S&P 500 as top-performing indexes this year, with analysts expecting the rally to extend into 2025. The Nifty and Sensex have gained 18.

Nifty-50 index and the Sensex though hit record highs on Thursday, however, ended lower with gains of 0.15% and 0.29%

Bulls continued to dominate Dalal Street on Friday as Sensex closed above the historic 84,000-mark for the first time while Nifty settled at a new record high of 25,790.95 on Friday, powered by a rally in bank stocks following the Fed rate cut.

The Indian equity benchmarks created new record highs on Friday boosted by strong trend in US markets overnight. The Sensex rose as much as 975 points to hit new record high of 84,159.90 and Nifty 50 index touched an all-time high of 25,

The trends on Gift Nifty also indicate a mildly positive start for the Indian benchmark index. The Gift Nifty was trading around 25,530 level, a premium of nearly 40 points from the Nifty futures’ previous close.

The two key equity benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty, on Thursday hit their all-time highs following US Federal Reserve announced a 50 bps rate cut on Wednesday evening. At 9.40 am, the BSE Sensex 637 points to 83,