At the close, the Sensex was down 961.42 points, or 1.17%, at 81,287.19, while the Nifty was down 317.90 points, or 1.25%, at 25,178.65.
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The Indian stock market ended lower on Friday amid broad-based selling across most sectors, with the Nifty closing below the 25,200 mark.
At the close, the Sensex was down 961.42 points, or 1.17%, at 81,287.19, while the Nifty was down 317.90 points, or 1.25%, at 25,178.65.
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The Nifty Midcap and Smallcap indices slipped 1% each. The overall market capitalisation of BSE-listed firms dropped to around Rs 463 lakh crore from Rs 468.5 lakh crore in the previous session.
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Among the sectors, Nifty Realty was the top laggard, falling 2.27%. Nifty Auto, Nifty FMCG, and Nifty Metal all fell by more than 1.5%. Nifty Media closed up 0.65%, Nifty Chemicals rose 0.11%, while the Nifty IT largely remained unchanged.
On the Nifty, the top gainers were Trent, HCL Tech, Infosys, and Apollo Hospitals. While on the losing side were Dr Reddy’s Labs, Bharti Airtel, M&M, HDFC Life, and Sun Pharma.
Around 100 stocks touched their 52-week highs, while more than 330 stocks touched their 52-week lows on the BSE.
Those hitting high included Sai Life Sciences, Schaeffler Industries, Apar Industries, Graphite India, JK Bank, SAIL, Hitachi Energy, IOC, Polycab, Bharat Forge, Bank of Maharashtra, Lupin, Bank of India, Data Patterns, and Eicher Motors, among others.
While on the lows were Just Dial, Inox Wind, Firstsource Solutions, Suzlon Energy, Reliance Power, Afcons Infra, IRCTC, Cello World, Syngene International, Poly Medicure, Vedant Fashions, Emami, C. E. Info Systems, ACC, IRFC, BASF, Page Industries, Relaxo Footwear, and Bajaj Housing, among others.
In terms of some of the notable names, L&T was a top laggard, falling 5.32%, PB Fintech shed 3.2%, while LIC extended its losing streak to the third straight day, dropping another 2.5%.
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