New Delhi, February 11 (HS): The domestic stock market remained under pressure for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday. Today the market fell by more than 1.30 percent. Due to the chaos in the market, investors lost more than Rs 9 lakh crore in a single day. Due to the continuous fall in the market, the Sensex has fallen by about 2,300 points in the last 5 days. Today, after the day’s trading, the Sensex closed with a weakness of 1.32 percent and Nifty with a weakness of 1.33 percent.
Today during the day’s trading, the selling pressure was so high that all sectoral indices closed in the red mark. Banking, IT, automobile, capital goods, consumer durables, health care, metal, oil and gas, public sector enterprise and tech index fell by 1.12 percent to 2.78 percent today. There was continuous selling pressure in the broader market today, due to which the BSE midcap index closed with a decline of 2.88 percent. Similarly, the smallcap index ended today’s trading with a weakness of 3.40 percent.
Due to the weakness in the stock market today, the wealth of stock market investors decreased by more than Rs 9 lakh crore. The market capitalization of companies listed on the BSE decreased to Rs 408.50 lakh crore (provisional) after today’s trading. On the previous trading day i.e. Monday, their market capitalization was Rs 417.82 lakh crore. In this way, investors lost about Rs 9.32 lakh crore from today’s trading.
There was active trading in 4,097 shares in BSE during the day’s trading today. Of these, 525 stocks closed with gains, while 3,478 stocks declined and 94 stocks closed without any fluctuations. There was active trading in 2,617 stocks on NSE today. Of these, 231 stocks closed in the green mark after making profits and 2,386 stocks closed in the red mark after suffering losses. Similarly, out of the 30 stocks included in the Sensex, 1 stock closed with gains and 29 stocks closed with losses, while out of the 50 stocks included in the Nifty, 4 stocks closed in the green mark and 46 stocks closed in the red mark.The BSE Sensex opened today with a gain of 73.18 points at 77,384.98 points. As soon as the trading started, there was pressure in the market, due to which this index dived into the red mark. Due to the sharp selling in the market around 1 pm, the Sensex fell 1,281.21 points to 76,030.59 points in a short time. However, due to slight buying in the end, the index recovered more than 250 points from the lower level and closed at 76,293.60 points with a weakness of 1,018.20 points.
Like the Sensex, NSE’s Nifty started trading today with a symbolic rise of 1.95 points at the level of 23,383.55 points. As soon as the market opened, due to the selling pressure, this index slipped and reached the red mark. Due to continuous selling, this index fell by 394.95 points to 22,986.65 points in the second trading session of the day. However, with the support of buying in the end, Nifty recovered about 85 points from the lower level and closed at 23,071.80 points with a decline of 309.80 points.
After the whole day’s trading, among the big stocks of the stock market, Adani Enterprises joined the list of gainers today with a strength of 1.35 percent, Grasim Industries 0.74 percent, Trent Limited 0.61 percent and Bharti Airtel 0.22 percent. On the other hand, Eicher Motors joined the list of top 5 losers today with a decline of 6.80 percent, Apollo Hospital 6.57 percent, Shriram Finance 3.97 percent, Coal India 3.10 percent and Bharat Electronics 3.07 percent.
Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar
