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Chennai, July 2 Turnover remained moderate at Rs 52,918.55 crore in the F&O segment on the NSE on Thursday. The Nifty July future maintained its discount and closed at 4,345.8 against the spot close of 4,348.85. It accumulated 6.98 lakh shares in open interest.

Among the options, calls were most actively traded indicating the emergence of call writers. Among them, 4500, 4600 and 4400 strikes were the most active and added 1.1 lakh shares, 1.5 lakh shares in open interest. Among the puts, 4300 strike was the most active and added 2.11 lakh shares. The other active puts were 4000 and 4200 strikes.

Reliance was the top traded counters, followed by Tata Steel and ONGC. Today’s star performer was ONGC. It added 7.07 lakh shares in open interest and closed with a sharp gains of 6.93 per cent at 1131.2 over the spot close of 1126.6.

It was just moderate accumulation only in realty space.

Tata Steel, Reliance Capital shed open interest. While the former shed 35144 shares, the latter witnessed a fall of 1.62 lakh shares.

Ispat Industries saw a sharp fall of 13.19 lakh shares in open interest and closed at 21.75 against the spot close of 21.5.

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