New Delhi, March 24 -- Indian stock market benchmark Nifty 50 ended with a healthy gain of over 4 per cent last week, logging the largest weekly rise in more than four years, with shares of SBI Life Insurance, Shriram Finance and HDFC Life Insurance jumping 9-11 per cent.

Comfortable valuations, signs of foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) returning to the Indian stock market, improving macro indicators, and expectations of further rate cuts by the RBI and the US Federal Reserve were the key drivers behind the market's largest weekly gains since February 2021.

US President Donald Trump's tariff policies, the evolving situation in the Middle East, and the upcoming Q4 numbers will dictate the market's mood in the near future.

As the marke...