On Wednesday, in the final hour of the trading session, the benchmark indices were trading marginally lower. Underpinned by pharma and FMCG stocks, the domestic market was on a steady run in the first half of the trading session. The UK market opened lower as the sentiment was disturbed by rising retail inflation numbers and cautiousness of sharper rate hikes.  

On Tuesday, the equity markets lowered their momentum as new financial and trade sanctions were imposed on Russia coupled with the suspension of gas imports.