Business News Desk – Despite a good start during the morning trading in Tuesday’s trading session, the day saw selling and the market closed with a decline. This fall in the market has come due to profit booking in auto, IT and pharma stocks. However, buying in midcap and smallcap stocks showed enthusiasm. At the close of the market, BSE Sensex fell by 153 points at 81,820 and National Stock Exchange’s Nifty fell by 71 points at 25057 points.
Sectoral Update
In today’s trading, buying was seen in shares of banking, FMCG, real estate, media, consumer durables sectors. Whereas selling was seen in shares of Auto, IT, Pharma, Metal, Energy, Commodities. Due to buying in midcap and smallcap stocks, Nifty midcap index closed with a jump of 121 points and smallcap index closed with a jump of 211 points.
rising and falling shares
Out of 30 shares of BSE, 9 shares closed with gains and 21 with losses. At the same time, out of 50 stocks of Nifty, 18 closed with gains and 30 with losses and no change was seen in the prices of two stocks. Among the rising stocks, ICICI Bank closed with gains of 1.95%, Bharti Airtel 1.26%, Asian Paints 1.20%, Adani Ports 0.71%, UltraTech Cement 0.68%, HCL Tech 0.58%, NTPC 0.27%. Among the falling stocks, Bajaj Finance fell by 2.47%, Reliance by 2.05%, Tata Steel by 1.58%, Tech Mahindra by 1.07%, Tata Motors by 1.01%, Kotak Mahindra Bank by 0.80%.
