New Delhi, February 18 (HS): The domestic stock market closed in the red today after facing fluctuations. However, during today's trading, domestic institutional investors once again tried to make a strong buying push, due to which Sensex and Nifty were able to recover to a great extent from the lower levels despite a big fall. After the whole day's trading, Sensex closed with a weakness of 0.04 percent and Nifty with a weakness of 0.06 percent.
Today, during the whole day's trading, there was buying in the shares of Public Sector Enterprise, IT and Energy Sector. Along with this, Metal, Oil and Gas and Tech Index also managed to close with gains. Selling pressure remained in the shares of FMCG, Automobile and Banking sector. Apart from this, Capital Goods, Consumer Durable and Health Care index also closed with a decline. Selling pressure also persisted in the broader market, due to which the BSE Midcap index closed with a weakness of 0.19 percent. Similarly, the Smallcap index ended today's trading with a huge decline of 1.71 percent.
Due to the weakness in the stock market today, the wealth of stock market investors decreased by more than Rs 2.5 lakh crore. The market capitalization of companies listed on the BSE decreased to Rs 397.81 lakh crore (provisional) after today's trading. On the previous trading day i.e. Monday, their market capitalization was Rs 400.32 lakh crore. In this way, investors lost about Rs 2.51 lakh crore from today's trading.
There was active trading in 4,064 shares in BSE during the day's trading today. Of these, 1,037 stocks closed with gains while 2,914 stocks declined, while 113 stocks closed without any fluctuations. Active trading took place in 2,607 stocks on NSE today. Of these, 601 stocks closed in the green zone after making profits and 2,006 stocks closed in the red zone after suffering losses. Similarly, out of the 30 stocks included in the Sensex, 16 stocks closed with gains and 14 stocks closed with losses. Out of the 50 stocks included in the Nifty, 24 stocks closed in the green zone and 26 stocks closed in the red zone.
The BSE Sensex opened today with a gain of 76.85 points at 76,073.71 points. Shortly after the start of trading, there was selling pressure, due to which the index fell 560.68 points from the upper level to a weakness of 465.85 points to the level of 75,531.01 points. However, after 11 am, domestic institutional investors started buying, due to which the condition of this index started improving. With the support of buying, the Sensex recovered 436.38 points from the lower level and closed at 75,967.39 points with a slight weakness of 29.47 points. Like the Sensex, NSE's Nifty started trading today with a symbolic gain of 4.15 points at 22,963.65 points. After the market opened, there was slight fluctuation for some time, but after that due to selling pressure, the index fell by 158 points to 22,801.50 points. After facing pressure for the first 2 hours, domestic institutional investors started buying, due to which the index was able to recover more than 190 points from the lower level and reach 22,992.50 points with a strength of 33 points. However, due to selling again in the last half hour of trading, Nifty slipped from the upper level and closed at 22,945.30 points with a decline of 14.20 points.
After the day's trading today, among the big stocks of the stock market, NTPC joined the list of today's top 5 gainers with a strength of 2.93 percent, Tech Mahindra 2.41 percent, Wipro 2.24 percent, Power Grid Corporation 1.42 percent and ONGC 1.26 percent. Indusind Bank joined the list of today's top 5 losers with a decline of 2.30 percent, Trent Limited 1.94 percent, UltraTech Cement 1.58 percent, Bharat Electronics 1.57 percent and Mahindra & Mahindra 1.48 percent.
Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar
