New Delhi, Nov. 28 -- Fourteen months after a big selloff attributed to a global shift in capital flows, Indian largecap stock indices regained the limelight on Thursday. The wait had begun to seem endless, but the BSE Sensex finally surpassed last year's peak to touch a fresh intraday all-time high. This index leapt above the 86,000 mark for the first time, though it closed the trading day lower.

Investor nails have been bitten all through these months as indices seesawed, but rolling-average trends-shorn of spikes and dips-of the Sensex and Nifty have shown an incline since the start of 2025-26. While the latest upswing had analysts talking of a possible return of foreign inflows, the market's strength has had much to do with domestic ...