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Indian benchmarks are expected to start the day in green on Friday. Investors will today await the outcome of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) monetary policy meet, due later in the day. The six-member MPC is forecast to hold the benchmark repurchase rate at 4 per cent today.

Markets will also react to some developments in the telecom sector. Telecom stocks might trade actively today after Trai announced the latest subscription figures. Bharti Airtel was the biggest gainer in terms of users in September with 3.8 million subscriber additions, Reliance Jio added 1.5 million users while Vodafone Idea continued losing subscribers.

Secondly, Aviation stocks might gain in trade today after the cap on the number of domestic flights that Indian airlines are permitted to operate was increased from 70 per cent to 80 per cent of their pre-COVID levels on Thursday.

On Thursday, the 30-share benchmark index ended at 44632.65 up by 14.61 points or by 0.03 % and then NSE Nifty was at 13133.9 up by 20.15 points or by 0.15 %.

On the globa front, the Nasdaq Composite Index closed at a record high on Thursday, lifted by Tesla Inc , while the S&P 500 fell after a report that Pfizer Inc had slashed the target for the rollout of its COVID-19 vaccine.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.29% to end at 29,969.52 points, while the S&P 500 lost 0.06% to 3,666.72. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.23% to 12,377.18.

Meanwhile, OPEC and Russia on Thursday agreed to slightly ease their deep oil output cuts from January by 500,000 barrels per day but failed to find a compromise on a broader and longer term policy for the rest of next year.

Back home, top traded Volumes on NSE Nifty – State Bank of India 79266442.00, GAIL (India) Ltd. 60765138.00, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. 53618786.00, NTPC Ltd. 43841111.00, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. 39317570.00.

On NSE, total number of shares traded was 34.35 Crore and total turnover stood at Rs. 71572.72 Crore.

On NSE Future and Options, total number of contracts traded in index futures was 321245 with a total turnover of Rs. 26422.66 Crore. Along with this total number of contracts traded in stock futures were 838175 with a total turnover of Rs. 64988.81 Crore.

Total numbers of contracts for index options were 58173581 with a total turnover of Rs. 4734929.08 Crore. and total numbers of contracts for stock options were 1229861 with a total turnover of Rs. 98195.78 Crore.

The FIIs on 03/12/2020 stood as net buyer in equity and debt. Gross equity purchased stood at Rs. 9483.86 Crore and gross debt purchased stood at Rs. 181.53 Crore, while the gross equity sold stood at Rs. 9320.13 Crore and gross debt sold stood at Rs. 520.46 Crore. Therefore, the net investment of equity and debt reported were Rs. 163.73 Crore and Rs. -338.93.