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.
Sensex opened lower at 75,031.79, and climbed in the afternoon session to touch its all-time high of 76,795.31. Further at close, it was at 76,693.36, up 1,618.85 points, or 2.16%.
Sensex opened higher at 75,078.70, and closed at 75,074.51, up 692.27 points, or 0.93%.
BSE Midcap and smallcap indices were also down 4% each. All the sectoral indices are trading in the red with PSU Bank down 9%.
At close, the Sensex settled 76 points, or 0.10%, higher at 73,961.31 while the Nifty 50 closed 42 points, or 0.19%, up at 22,530.70.
This was the fifth day of decline for the benchmarks when Nifty50 was down nearly 1 per cent or 216 points at 22,488 while Sensex dropped 0.8 per cent or 617 points to 73,885.
