New Delhi, September 6 (HS). Due to global pressure, the domestic stock market fell prey to a big decline today. For the third consecutive day, the stock market ended trading in the red mark. Today's trading also started with weakness. In the initial trade, with the support of buying, the stock market recovered for some time and came in the green mark, but after this, due to the pressure of selling, both the Sensex and Nifty indices fell sharply. Today, the Sensex slipped below 81 thousand points for some time. Similarly, the Nifty also came below 25 thousand points. After the day's trading, the Sensex closed with a decline of 1.24 percent and the Nifty with a decline of 1.17 percent.
All sectoral indices of Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange closed in red during the day's trading today. In the day's trading, the shares of automobile, oil and gas, telecom, media, PSU bank, realty and IT sector were the biggest losers. Similarly, FMCG, metal and IT indices also closed with a decline. There was all-round selling pressure in the broader market today, due to which the BSE midcap index closed down by 1.41 percent. Similarly, the smallcap index ended today's trading with a decline of 0.96 percent.
Due to the fall in the market today, the wealth of stock market investors has decreased by more than Rs 5 lakh crore. The market capitalization of companies listed on BSE decreased to Rs 460.46 lakh crore (provisional) after today's trading. Whereas on the previous trading day i.e. Thursday, their market capitalization was Rs 465.68 lakh crore. In this way, investors have suffered a loss of about Rs 5.22 lakh crore from today's trading.
There was active trading in 4,034 shares on BSE during today's trading. Out of these, 1,412 shares closed with a gain while 2,534 shares showed a decline while 88 shares closed without any fluctuation. There was active trading in 2,412 shares on NSE today. Out of these, 629 shares closed in the green zone after making profit while 1,783 shares closed in the red zone after incurring loss. Similarly, out of the 30 shares included in Sensex, 4 shares closed with a gain and 26 shares closed with a decline. While, out of the 50 shares included in Nifty, 7 shares closed in the green zone and 43 shares closed in the red zone.
The BSE Sensex opened today with a weakness of 30.08 points at 82,171.08 points. As soon as the trading started, the index recovered and reached 82,254.79 points in the green mark due to the support of buying. However, after a while the bears put their pressure on the market, due to which the index fell. Due to continuous selling, the Sensex first slipped below the level of 82 thousand points and then below the level of 81 thousand points and reached the level of 80,981.93 points with a huge fall of 1,219.23 points. However, in the last half hour of trading, on getting the support of buying, the index recovered about 200 points from the lower level and closed at the level of 81,183.93 points with a fall of 1,017.23 points.
Like the Sensex, NSE's Nifty today started trading at 25,093.70 points, down 51.40 points. As soon as the market opened, on receiving buying support, this index recovered about 75 points from the opening level and reached 25,168.75 points in the green mark with a gain of 23.65 points. However, in the first hour of trading itself, there was selling pressure in the market, due to which this index again plunged into the red mark. Due to continuous selling, Nifty fell below the 25 thousand points level and reached 24,801.30 points with a weakness of 343.80 points. After this big fall, with the support of minor buying at the last moment, Nifty recovered about 50 points from the lower level and ended today's trading at 24,852.15 points with a weakness of 292.95 points.
After a whole day of buying and selling, among the big stocks of the stock market, Asian Paints 1.09 percent, Bajaj Finance 1 percent, JSW Steel 0.79 percent, Divi's Laboratories 0.33 percent and LT Mindtree 0.26 percent were included in the list of top 5 gainers of today. On the other hand, State Bank of India 4.43 percent, BPCL 2.37 percent, ITC 1.86 percent, Axis Bank 1.89 percent and Tata Motors 1.85 percent were included in the list of top 5 losers of today.