Stock market closes with modest gain amid unchanged US Fed policy stance
Sensex closed with a gain of 128 points, or 0.17%, at 74,611.11 while the Nifty settled at 22,648.20, up 43 points, or 0.19%.
Sensex closed with a gain of 128 points, or 0.17%, at 74,611.11 while the Nifty settled at 22,648.20, up 43 points, or 0.19%.
Sensex closed 189 points, or 0.25 per cent, lower at 74,482.78 while the Nifty 50 closed the day at 22,604.85, down 39 points, or 0.17 per cent.
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.
The gainers on the BSE charts were led by NTPC (rose nearly 7 per cent), ONGC, PowerGrid and Tata Steel.
Broader markets also ended with MidCap and SmallCap indices up by 0.6 per cent and 1.16 per cent respectively.
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.