BENGALURU: Indian shares are likely to open marginally higher on Tuesday, kicking off a holiday-truncated week in line with Asian peers.

The Gift Nifty was trading at 22,124 as of 8:07 a.m. IST, indicating that the Nifty 50 will open above Friday’s close of 22,096.75.

Asian markets opened higher, with the MSCI ex-Japan advancing 0.3%, after dropping 1.1% in the last two sessions.

Wall Street equities closed lower overnight, after logging the best week in 2024 so far on Friday, as investors braced themselves for US inflation data due later in the week and as a Federal Reserve-driven rally came to a pause.

India’s blue-chip indexes Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex gained about 0.3% each last week. The small- and mid-caps also added about 1.4% each despite valuation concerns.

With concerns regarding inflated valuations in small- and mid-cap stocks persisting, large-caps are expected to outperform in the medium term, said Vinod Nair, head of research at Geojit Financial Services.

Fed optimism powers Indian shares to weekly gains

Foreign portfolio investors sold Indian shares worth 33.10 billion Indian rupees (~ $397 million) on a net basis on Friday, while domestic institutional investors bought a net 37.65 billion rupees of stocks.