New Delhi, 13 January (H.S.): Due to weak global signals, all-round selling by foreign investors, rise in the price of crude oil and a sharp fall in the value of rupee, the domestic stock market fell prey to a tremendous fall today. Today's trading also started with weakness.

Although buying pressure was seen in the initial one hour of trading, but after that the stock market remained under pressure throughout the day. Due to this pressure, the BSE Sensex fell by 1,129 points intra-day. At the same time, due to the fall in today's trading, domestic investors suffered a loss of more than ₹12 lakh crore. After the whole day's trading, the Sensex closed with a weakness of 1.36 percent and Nifty 1.47 percent.

After the day's trading today, all the sectoral indices of BSE closed in the red with a decline. In this, the realty sector remained under the highest selling pressure, due to which this index closed with a decline of 6 percent. Similarly, PSE, Media, Oil & Gas, Power and Metal indices fell by 3 percent.

Apart from this, Banking IT, Capital Goods, Consumer Durable, FMCG, Healthcare and Tech indices also closed with a decline. There was continuous selling pressure in the broader market today, due to which the BSE Midcap index closed with a weakness of 4.17 percent. Similarly, the Smallcap index ended today's trading with a decline of 4.14 percent.

Due to the weakness in the stock market today, the wealth of stock market investors decreased by more than Rs 12 lakh crore. The market capitalization of companies listed on BSE decreased to Rs 417.28 lakh crore (provisional) after today's trading. Whereas on the last trading day of last week i.e. Friday, their market capitalization was Rs 429.67 lakh crore. In this way, investors have suffered a loss of about Rs 12.39 lakh crore from today's trading.

Today, during the day's trading, there was active trading in 4,226 shares in BSE. Out of these, 527 shares closed with a gain, while 3,571 shares showed a decline, while 128 shares closed without any fluctuation. Today, there was active trading in 2,585 shares in NSE. Out of these, 212 shares closed in the green mark after making profit and 2,373 shares closed in the red mark after suffering loss. Similarly, out of the 30 shares included in Sensex, 4 shares closed with a gain and 26 shares closed with a decline. Whereas out of the 50 shares included in Nifty, 4 shares closed in the green mark and 46 shares closed in the red mark.

The BSE Sensex today opened at 76,629.90 points, down 749.01 points. After the market opened, buyers tried to support the Sensex by increasing buying pressure. Before the support of buying, in 1 hour of trading, the index was able to recover about 500 points from the opening level and reach 77,128.35 points, but after this there was selling pressure in the market. Due to continuous selling, the index fell by 1,129.19 points to 76,249.72 points shortly before the end of today's trading. After the whole day's trading, the Sensex closed at 76,330.01 points with a decline of 1,048.90 points.

Like the Sensex, NSE's Nifty today started trading with a weakness of 236.10 points at the level of 23,195.40 points. After the market opened, with the support of buying, the index recovered more than 140 points from the opening level and reached 23,340.95 points, but after this, due to selling pressure in the market, it fell sharply. Due to continuous selling, shortly before the end of today's trading, the index fell by 384.25 points to 23,047.25 points. However, due to last minute buying, Nifty recovered about 40 points from the lower level and closed at 23,085.95 points with a weakness of 345.55 points.

After the day's buying and selling, among the big stocks of the stock market, Axis Bank joined the list of today's top gainers with a strength of 0.83 percent, TCS 0.60 percent, IndusInd Bank 0.44 percent and Hindustan Unilever 0.37 percent. On the other hand, Adani Enterprises fell 6.29 per cent, Trent Limited 5.46 per cent, BPCL 4.45 per cent, Bharat Electronics 4.21 per cent and Adani Ports 4.10 per cent to be included in the list of top 5 losers today.

Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar