New Delhi, February 13 (HS): Domestic stock market closed with decline for seventh consecutive trading day on Thursday. Today’s trading fluctuated throughout the day. In the first session of the day, buyers made a strong buying pressure, but in the second session there was selling pressure. After full day’s trading, Sensex closed with a weakness of 0.04 percent and Nifty closed with a weakness of 0.06 percent.
Today, there was continuous buying in the shares of realty, metal and pharmaceutical sector. Apart from this, Capital Goods and PSE index also closed with strength. There was continuous selling pressure in the shares of IT, FMCG and Consumer Durable sector. Similarly, Oil and Gas, Automobile, Banking and Tech index also closed with a decline. The broader market witnessed mixed trading today, due to which the BSE midcap index closed with a gain of 0.07 percent. The smallcap index ended today’s trading with a weakness of 0.43 percent.
Due to the weakness in the stock market today, the wealth of stock market investors decreased by more than Rs 30 thousand crore. The market capitalization of companies listed on the BSE came down to Rs 407.14 lakh crore (provisional) after today’s trading, whereas on the previous trading day i.e. Wednesday, their market capitalization was Rs 407.46 lakh crore. In this way, investors lost about Rs 32 thousand crore from today’s trading.
Today, during the day’s trading, there was active trading in 4,074 shares in BSE. Of these, 1,857 shares closed with a gain, while 2,089 shares declined, while 128 shares closed without any fluctuation. Today, there was active trading in 2,574 shares in NSE. Out of these, 1,217 stocks closed in the green zone after making profit and 1,357 stocks closed in the red zone after suffering loss. Similarly, out of the 30 stocks included in the Sensex, 16 stocks closed with a gain and 14 stocks closed with a loss. Whereas, out of the 50 stocks included in the Nifty, 25 stocks closed in the green zone and 25 stocks closed in the red zone.
The BSE Sensex opened today with a marginal gain of 30.02 points at 76,201.10 points. As soon as the trading started, a tussle started between the buyers and sellers in the market. First, the index fell by 157.65 points to 76,013.43 points. Shortly after this, with the support of buying, the index jumped 751.10 points from the lower level and reached 76,764.53 points with a gain of 593.45 points. However, it again plunged into the red mark due to selling pressure in the second session of the day. Due to the selling in the second session of the day, the Sensex fell 625.56 points from the upper level and closed with a weakness of 32.11 points at 76,138.97 points.
Like the Sensex, the NSE Nifty started trading at 23,055.75 points with a symbolic gain of 10.50 points. As soon as the market opened, the index first slipped 53.05 points to 22,292.20 points under selling pressure. However, after this, on getting buying support, the index jumped more than 240 points from the lower level and reached 23,235.50 points with a gain of 190.25 points. In the second session of the day, the bears once again started selling, due to which the Nifty slipped more than 200 points from the upper level and closed at 23,031.40 points with a decline of 13.85 points.
After the day’s trading, among the big stocks of the stock market, Bajaj Finserv 3.39 percent, Sun Pharmaceuticals 3.10 percent, Tata Steel 3 percent, Bajaj Finance 2.37 percent and Cipla 1.58 percent were included in the list of today’s top 5 gainers. On the other hand, Adani Enterprises 4.62 percent, Adani Ports 1.54 percent, Hero MotoCorp 1.47 percent, Infosys 1.07 percent and ONGC 1.03 percent were included in the list of today’s top 5 losers.
Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar
