Delhi, 17 January (H.S.): The bullish trend in the domestic stock market for three consecutive days came to an end today. Today's trading had a mixed start. After the market opened, the stock market fell by about 1 percent due to selling pressure. However, after 11 am, buyers tried to support the market by buying, due to which there was some improvement in the condition of both Sensex and Nifty indices. After the whole day's trading, Sensex closed with a weakness of 0.55 percent and Nifty with a weakness of 0.47 percent.
Today, during the whole day's trading, there was continuous selling in the shares of banking, IT, tech and automobile sectors. On the other hand, there was continuous buying in PSE, realty and energy sectors. Along with this, metal, pharmaceutical, capital goods, consumer durables, FMCG and oil and gas indices also closed with gains. The broader market generally saw mixed trading today, due to which the BSE midcap index closed with a marginal gain of 0.04 per cent. Similarly, the smallcap index ended today's trading with a symbolic gain of 0.01 per cent.
Despite the weakness in the stock market today, the wealth of stock market investors increased by about Rs 35 thousand crore. The market capitalization of companies listed on the BSE increased to Rs 428.75 lakh crore (provisional) after today's trading. Whereas on the previous trading day i.e. Thursday, their market capitalization was Rs 428.40 lakh crore. In this way, investors got a profit of about Rs 35 thousand crore from today's trading.
There was active trading in 4,065 shares in BSE during the day's trading today. Of these, 2,060 stocks closed with gains, while 1,881 stocks declined, while 124 stocks closed without any fluctuations. Active trading took place in 2,516 stocks on NSE today. Of these, 1,296 stocks closed in the green zone after making profits and 1,220 stocks closed in the red zone after suffering losses. Similarly, out of the 30 stocks included in the Sensex, 15 stocks closed with gains and 15 stocks closed with losses. While out of the 50 stocks included in the Nifty, 29 stocks closed in the green zone and 21 stocks closed in the red zone.
The BSE Sensex opened today with a gain of 26.37 points at 77,069.19 points. As soon as the trading started, there was selling pressure, due to which the index fell by 779.53 points to 76,263.29 points in the trading till 11 am. However, after this, buyers tried to increase their buying pressure, due to which the condition of this index started improving. After the day's trading, the Sensex recovered 356.04 points from today's low and closed at 76,619.33 points with a decline of 423.49 points.
In contrast to the Sensex, NSE's Nifty today slipped 34.70 points to start trading at 23,277.10 points. After the market opened, with the support of buying, this index jumped to the level of 23,292.10 points, but after this, due to the pressure of selling, this index declined. Due to continuous selling, by 11 am, this index fell by 211.45 points to the level of 23,100.35 points. However, after this, due to the support of buying, the movement of this index also improved. After a day of buying and selling, Nifty recovered more than 100 points from the lower level and closed at 23,203.20 points with a loss of 108.60 points.
After the whole day's trading, among the big stocks of the stock market, Reliance Industries joined the list of today's top 5 gainers with a gain of 2.83 percent, BPCL 2.51 percent, Hindalco Industries 2.39 percent, Coal India 2.32 percent and Nestle 2.21 percent. On the other hand, Infosys joined the list of today's top 5 losers with a loss of 5.86 percent, Axis Bank 4.52 percent, Shriram Finance 3.71 percent, Kotak Mahindra 2.60 percent and Mahindra & Mahindra 2.12 percent.
Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar
