Market snaps 7-day losing streak, Nifty closes above 23,500
At close, the Sensex was up 239.37 points or 0.31% at 77,578.38, and the Nifty was up 64.70 points or 0.28% at 23,518.50.
At close, the Sensex was up 239.37 points or 0.31% at 77,578.38, and the Nifty was up 64.70 points or 0.28% at 23,518.50.
On Nifty, Hindalco, Hero MotoCorp, Tata Steel, HUL, and M&M were the top gainers, rising 1.5-4 per cent while BPCL, TCS, Infosys, Trent, and Dr Reddy's Labs were the biggest losers falling 2.5-3 per cent.
At close, the Sensex was down 110.64 points or 0.14 per cent at 77,580.31, and the Nifty was down 26.35 points or 0.11 per cent at 23,532.70.
At the close, the Sensex had shed 984 points, or 1.3%, settling at 77,690, while the Nifty declined 324 points, or 1.4%,, to 23,559.
The stock market crash led to a sharp decline in the market capitalisation of all listed companies on the BSE by more than Rs 5.5 lakh crore.
Among the sectors, all indices ended with gains except Nifty PSU Bank (down 0.50%) and Media (down 0.22%).
At close, BSE Sensex was up 147.89 points, or 0.18% at 81,053.19, and the Nifty was up 41.30 points, or 0.17% at 24,811.50.
Nifty and Sensex settle in the green, recording gains for the fifth consecutive session.
The market opened marginally lower and extended the losses as the day progressed, dragging Nifty near 24,100 and Sensex below 79,000 amid selling across the sectors.
The India VIX rose over 2% to end at 16.6. The VIX measures market volatility and fluctuations.
