Market Reality
India's equity markets, long buoyed by strong economic growth and rising corporate earnings, are now facing a sharp and prolonged correction.
India's equity markets, long buoyed by strong economic growth and rising corporate earnings, are now facing a sharp and prolonged correction.
The stock market extended the losses to the fourth session on Wednesday and ended marginally lower in the highly volatile session. At close, the Sensex was down 28.21 points or 0.04% at 75,939.18, andthe Nifty was down 12.40 points or 0.05% at 22,932.90.
On the losing side were Indusind Bank (2.30%), Trent (1.94%), Ultratech Cement (1.58%), Bharat Electronics (1.57%), and Mahindra & Mahindra (1.48%).
At close, the Sensex was up 57.65 points or 0.08% at 75,996.86, and the Nifty was up 30.25 points or 0.13% at 22,959.50.
At close, Sensex was down 199 points or 0.3 per cent at 75,939, and the Nifty was down 102 points or 0.4 per cent at 22,929. About 642 shares advanced, 3,200 shares declined, and 73 shares were unchanged.
At close, the Sensex was up 149.85 points or 0.19 percent at 79,105.88, and the Nifty was up 4.75 points or 0.02 per cent at 24,143.75.
Sensex and Nifty 50 gained back all of the ground they had lost earlier and continued to rise due to encouraging trends in international stocks and new inflows of foreign money.
Sensex closed 820 points, or 1.04%, higher at 79,705.91, while the Nifty 50 ended with a gain of 251 points, or 1.04%, at 24,367.50.
Among the sectors, auto, bank and oil & gas were down 0.5% each, while IT, metal, realty up 0.3-0.8%.
Nifty 50 plunged 824 points, falling below 24,000 for the first time since late June, while Sensex dropped by 2,686 points to an intra-day low of 78,295.
