The Indian stock market, which saw a super rally on Tuesday, lost the steam towards the end amid heavy profit-booking, as fresh tensions between Ukraine and Russia came to light.
The Indian stock market outperformed the world's richest investor Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway in terms of return in the last 25 years, an AMC company report said.
As the Indian stock market keeps touching new highs amid a record bull run, over 42.4 lakh new demat accounts were opened in the month of June, the highest account opening rate since February.
The Nifty has also nosedived nearly 850 points, from 22,794 points to 21,957 points, in the last five trading sessions.
Sensex ended the day at 72,748.42, up by 104.99 points or 0.14 per cent while the Nifty was up 32.40 points or 0.15 per cent at 22,055.70.
At 9.42 am, Sensex traded at 59,854.76 points, up 23.10 points or 0.039 per cent, whereas Nifty traded at 17,749.35 points, up 18.60 points or 0.10 per cent.
Sensex traded at 58,962.18 points, down 145.01 points or 0.25 per cent, whereas Nifty traded at 17,468.35 points, down 43.90 points or 0.25 per cent.
The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex ended the day at 58,191.29 points, which is 30.81 points or 0.05 per cent lower than its previous day's close at 58,222.10 points.
BSE Bankex was down 0.63 per cent to 44,567 whereas BSE IT was 40 points. In the broader market
Maruti, Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Titan, Ultra Cement, HUL and Tata Steel whereas IndusInd Bank, Wipro, Infosys, Asian Paints, Mahindra, HDFC, NTPC, Kotak Bank, SBI were among the laggards on the 30-share index.
