Hello friends! You are here at ETMarkets Evening Podcast.

This is Abhinav Kaul and I will get you a heads-up on today's session on Dalal Street and lowdown on cues and trading tips from market hotshots for future trading sessions.

Benchmark indices seem to be in a tearing hurry. This time too, it was a fresh day with a fresh closing peak, powered by ample liquidity.

The end of the funding logjam in the US gave more hope. But volatility is all set to bump up ahead of the expiry of January series futures & options contracts.

The BSE Sensex today finished above 36,000 at 36,140, with a gain of 342 points. SBI took the pole position, but Wipro lost by the heaviest margin.

For the broader Nifty50, the closing was above 11,000 at 11,084, a jump of 117 points. As many as 35 constituents turned green and 15 red.

Axis Bank, Infosys, Bharat Forge, HCL Technologies, ICICI Bank and Action Construction Equipment all hit fresh 52-week highs on the NSE.

Defence PSU Bharat Dynamics Ltd has filed draft papers with capital markets regulator Sebi to float an initial public offer.

Here's the take of A K Prabhakar from IDBI Capital Markets on fundamentals in this exclusive chat with ETMarkets.com

Byte 1: A K Prabhakar

Shares of Shree Cement witnessed the biggest spike in open interest contracts at 21.16 per cent, followed by Torrent Power (16.98 per cent) and Can Fin Homes (16.83 per cent).

We have with us Anup Chandak from Sharekhan to offer us some insights on futures and options.

Byte 2: Anup Chandak

The Nifty made a strong bull candle, but some analysts feel that the ongoing rally needs to pause as the NSE barometer is moving too far from its short-term moving averages.

Mazhar Mohammad from Chartview India has more on the technical side.

Byte 3: Mazhar Mohammad

That's all for now. Do check out ETMarkets.com for detailed market analysis and come back for our regular morning podcast feed on Wednesday. Have a great time ahead.