New Delhi, 10 January (H.S.): The domestic stock market closed with a decline for the third consecutive trading day on Friday. Today's trading started with a slight increase. However, as soon as the market opened, buyers and sellers started trying to dominate each other, due to which the movement of both Sensex and Nifty indices also kept going up and down continuously. After the whole day's trading, Sensex closed with a weakness of 0.31 percent and Nifty with a weakness of 0.40 percent.

After the whole day's trading today, apart from IT and Tech sector, all other sectoral indices closed in the red with a decline. Today, the most pressure remained on the shares of banking, pharmaceutical, public sector enterprise and realty sector. Similarly, energy, metal and automobile indices also closed with a decline. On the other hand, the IT index closed with a gain of 3.44 percent and the Tech index closed with a gain of 2.24 percent. There was continuous selling in the broader market today, due to which the BSE midcap index closed with a decline of 2.13 percent. Similarly, the smallcap index ended today's trading with a weakness of 2.40 percent.

Due to the weakness in the stock market today, the wealth of stock market investors decreased by about Rs 6 lakh crore. The market capitalization of companies listed on the BSE decreased to Rs 429.79 lakh crore (provisional) after today's trading. Whereas on the previous trading day i.e. Thursday, their market capitalization was Rs 435.49 lakh crore. In this way, investors lost about Rs 5.70 lakh crore from today's trading.

There was active trading in 4,078 shares in BSE during the day's trading today. Of these, 829 stocks closed with gains, while 3,162 stocks declined, while 87 stocks closed without any fluctuations. Active trading took place in 2,518 stocks on NSE today. Of these, 401 stocks closed in the green zone after making profits and 2,117 stocks closed in the red zone after suffering losses. Similarly, out of the 30 stocks included in the Sensex, 8 stocks closed with gains and 22 stocks closed with losses. While out of the 50 stocks included in the Nifty, 14 stocks closed in the green zone and 36 stocks closed in the red zone.

The BSE Sensex opened today with a marginal gain of 62.38 points at 77,682.59 points. As soon as trading began, a tussle began between the bulls and bears in the market, due to which the movement of this index also kept going up and down continuously. With the support of buying, this index rose by 299.49 points to reach 77,919.70 points. At the same time, due to selling pressure, this index fell by 520.60 points to 77,099.55 points. After the whole day's trading, the Sensex closed at 77,378.91 points, down 241.30 points. Like the Sensex, NSE's Nifty started trading today with a gain of 25.40 points at the level of 23,551.90 points. As soon as the market opened, the competition to dominate each other started between the buyers and sellers, due to which there was constant fluctuation in the movement of this index. With the support of buying, the Nifty reached 23,596.60 points with a strength of 70.10 points. On the other hand, due to selling pressure, this index also plunged to 23,344.35 points with a weakness of 182.15 points. After the day's buying and selling, Nifty fell 95 points to end today's trading at the level of 23,431.50 points.

After the whole day's trading, among the big stocks of the stock market, TCS joined the list of today's top 5 gainers with a strength of 5.62 percent, Tech Mahindra 3.82 percent, HCL Technology 3.12 percent, Wipro 2.82 percent and Infosys 2.59 percent. On the other hand, Shriram Finance joined the list of today's top 5 losers with a weakness of 5.33 percent, IndusInd Bank 4.41 percent, Adani Enterprises 4.18 percent, NTPC 3.78 percent and Bharat Electronics 3.64 percent.

Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar