While key sectors such as fertilisers, steel, cement, and petroleum refinery products registered positive growth, the gains were offset by declines in coal, crude oil, natural gas, and electricity.
Benchmark indices on Thursday continued their winning streak with Nifty crossing 24,200, intraday. The performance was on the back of buying across the sectors led by auto stocks after December sales number.
India's Index of Industrial Production (IIP) rose by 4.8 per cent in the month of July, improving its performance from 4.7 per cent in June, Ministry of Statistics data showed on Thursday.
Sensex opened at 81,349.28 against its previous close of 81,355.84 and settled 100 points, or 0.12%, higher at 81,455.40.
IT stocks are the biggest gainers in Thursday’s monster rally of more than 800 points after the US Fed gave a dovish message on interest rates.
The 2QFY24 results of BSE-500 Index companies showed further weakness in revenues (0.7 per cent yoy decline ex-BFSI), even as earnings growth remained robust (47 per cent yoy), Kotak Institutional Equities said in a report.
The exercise on the formulation of the District Good Governance Index was set in motion in July 2021 which has now been completed.
The Niti Aayog had conducted a survey in 56 cities of the countries on performance in SDG index in which social, economic and environment criterias had been included and Shimla had been ranked first.
Top losers in the Sensex pack included Bajaj Finance, ONGC, Hero MotoCorp, Maruti, L&T, NTPC, SBI, Tata Motors and Axis Bank, cracking up to 9 per cent.
Led by the selling in equity market, the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies dropped by Rs 2,00,258.81 crore to Rs 1,50,09,329.19 crore.
