week The Indian stock market opened with a huge decline on Friday, the last trading day of the month. Heavy profit-booking was seen in the market at the higher levels. The Bombay Stock Exchange index Sensex opened with a decline of 709 points at 81,158.99 today. At this time, out of the 30 Sensex stocks, 4 stocks were in the green and 26 were in the red. The Sensex had made an all-time high of 82129.49 points on Thursday. The Nifty was also seen trading at 24,789 in early trade, with a decline of 0.89 percent or 221 points. In early trade, out of the 50 Nifty stocks, 49 were seen trading in the red and 1 was seen trading without any change.
These stocks fell the most
Among the Nifty pack stocks, Tata Motors recorded the biggest decline of 3.32 percent. Apart from this, Tata Steel fell by 2.92 percent, Eicher Motors by 2.91 percent, Maruti by 2.49 percent and ONGC by 2.31 percent. On the other hand, the biggest gain was recorded in ITC by 0.84 percent, Hindustan Unilever by 0.82 percent, Apollo Hospital by 0.59 percent, Nestle India by 0.46 percent and Tata Consumer by 0.45 percent.
auto stocks fall
Talking about sectoral indices, the maximum decline was recorded in Nifty Auto at 1.87 percent. Apart from this, Nifty Bank fell by 0.75 percent, Nifty Financial Services by 0.66 percent, Nifty IT by 0.79 percent, Nifty Media by 0.05 percent, Nifty Metal by 1.55 percent, Nifty Pharma by 0.29 percent, Nifty PSU Bank by 1.27 percent, Nifty Private Bank by 0.75 percent, Nifty Realty by 1.14 percent, Nifty Healthcare Index by 0.30 percent, Nifty Consumer Durables by 0.36 percent, Nifty Oil & Gas by 0.89 percent and Nifty Midsmall Healthcare by 0.40 percent. On the other hand, Nifty FMCG rose by 0.43 percent.
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