Nifty tops 14,000, 5 key factors that kept market happy and high in a gloomy 2020 The road ahead will depend on how the economy fares in days to come and how quickly the vaccine becomes available to the masses. December 31, 2020 / 11:57 AM IST The year 2020 is going out with a bang, at least for the Indian equity markets, with the benchmark Nifty hitting the never-seen-before 14,000-mark in the morning trade on December 31. The Nifty's journey this year, like all things in 2020, has been volatile—it has jumped over 86 percent from the level of 7,511 it sunk to in March 2020. The bull run is likely to continue in 2021 and both the Sensex and the Nifty look poised to scale new peaks.