Market resumes downward march, most sectors in red
Share market fell sharply with BSE Sensex closing about 850 points down from the day’s high and NSE Nifty ending below the 23,650 mark.Both indices slipped over 1 per cent from their intraday highs
Share market fell sharply with BSE Sensex closing about 850 points down from the day’s high and NSE Nifty ending below the 23,650 mark.Both indices slipped over 1 per cent from their intraday highs
Sensex and Nifty faced their first weekly decline after four weeks of gains on Friday. The Sensex dropped to a low of 72,485 while the NSE Nifty 50 dipped to a low of 21,932.
range bound movement of the market is likely to be broken with an upward move soon, says V.K. Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services.
Earlier, the Nifty opened deep in the red at 16,924.45 points and slumped to a low of 16,917.25 points in the morning trade. The Nifty rose to a high of 17,092.25 points in the intra-day.
On Monday, Sensex settled at 56,580 points, down 1.1 per cent, whereas Nifty was at 16,985 points, down 1.1 per cent.
At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened weak at 71.96 and fell further to 72.05 against the US dollar.
The rupee appreciated marginally to 69.60 against the US dollar in early trade, RIL up 2 per cent
Markets are likely to continue to gain ground in the coming week with a correction or two also there.
Markets anticipate a rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the retail inflation data in the month of January, analysts said.
The BSE Sensex closed 358.42 points or 0.98 per cent higher at 36,975.23, while the Nifty finished the trade 128 points or 1.17 per cent higher at 11,062.45.
