Stock market ends five-day winning streak
At close, Sensex was down 609.28 points, or 0.82%, at 73,730.16. Meanwhile, Nifty opened higher at 22,620.40 and touched a low of 22,419.90 in intraday trades.
At close, Sensex was down 609.28 points, or 0.82%, at 73,730.16. Meanwhile, Nifty opened higher at 22,620.40 and touched a low of 22,419.90 in intraday trades.
Sensex closed 487 points, or 0.66%, higher at 74,339.44 while the Nifty closed the day with a gain of 168 points, or 0.75%, at 22,570.35 on the monthly F&O expiry day.
On the BSE Sensex, 13 of the 30 stocks ended in the red with TCS, Tech Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki India, Reliance Industries, and Titan were the top drags for the day. JSW Steel, Tata Steel, Power Grid Corp., Kotak Mahindra Bank, and UltraTech Cement, were the top gainers.
Sensex was up 599.34 points, or 0.83 per cent at 73,088.33, while the Nifty was up 151.20 points or 0.69 per cent at 22,147.
Sensex closed with a loss of 455 points, or 0.62%, at 72,488.99 while the Nifty 50 ended the day at 21,995.85, down 152 points, or 0.69%.
Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech, Bajaj Auto and Power Grid were among the laggards.
International crude oil benchmark Brent was trading 0.40 per cent higher at $45.13 per barrel.
The broader NSE Nifty slumped 122.05 points or 1.08 per cent to close at 11,178.40.
On the broader market, the S&P MidCap and SmallCap index ended 1.6 per cent and 0.76 per cent higher respectively.
The S&P BSE Sensex ended 37.38 points or 0.10 per cent lower at 38,369.63 levels. Kotak Bank was the top loser in the Sensex pack, skidding 2.10 per cent.