Mumbai, 21 February (IANS). Indian stock market opened in Friday’s trading session. At 9:30 in the morning, the Sensex was 79 points or 0.11 percent declined to 75,683 and the Nifty was 19 points or 0.09 percent to 22,893.
Midcap and smallcap are seen shopping compared to largecap. The Nifty Midcap 100 index rose by 278 points or 0.54 per cent to 51,428 and the Nifty Smallcap 100 index was 203 points or 1.30 per cent to 15,950.
The Nifty’s metal index is trading up more than 1 percent, while realty, energy and infra are growing by more than half a percent. Auto, IT, Financial Services, Pharma and FMCG have a decline.
The Sensex pack has Zomato, NTPC, Tata Steel, L&T, Bharti Airtel, TCS, IndusInd Bank, Adani Ports, Bajaj Finserv, Asian Paints, SBI, HCL Tech and Titan Gainers. M&M, Kotak Mahindra Bank, UltraTech Cement, Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki, Infosys and Sun Pharma are the top losis.
According to Choice Broking, there is 22,800, 22,700 and then 22,500 a strong support for Nifty after a light negative start. However, 23,000 is a blockage level. If it breaks, then the levels of 23,100 and 23,200 can be seen.
Most Asian markets are seeing a boom. Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Jakarta are trading in green mark. Seoul and Tokyo are in the red mark. The US markets were closed in red mark on Thursday.
Crude oil is trading with recession. WTI crude is $ 72.44 per barrel and Brent crude is at $ 76.44 per barrel.
Apart from this, the rate of gold in international markets remains at $ 2,946 an ounce of its highest level.
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