New Delhi, 9 October (Hindustan Reporter). After facing ups and downs throughout the day, the domestic stock market closed with a slight fall today. Today's trading started on a strong note. After the decision of the Monetary Policy Committee of RBI regarding interest rates, there was a bullish trend in the market, but in the afternoon, due to strong selling in selected shares, the stock market fell into the red mark. After the entire day's trading, Sensex closed with a fall of 0.21 percent and Nifty with a fall of 0.12 percent.
In today's trading, shares of IT and automobile sectors were bought the most. Apart from this, Realty, Pharmaceutical, Capital Goods, Consumer Durables, Tech and PSE indices also closed strongly. Shares of Energy, FMCG, Oil & Gas, Banking and Metal sectors remained under pressure. There was continuous buying in the broad market today, due to which the BSE midcap index closed with a gain of 1.06 percent. Similarly, the Smallcap index ended today's trading with a jump of 1.21 percent.
Despite the weakness in the stock market today, the wealth of stock market investors increased by about Rs 3 lakh crore due to purchases in midcap and smallcap shares. The market capitalization of BSE listed companies increased to Rs 462.47 lakh crore (provisional) after today's trading. Their market capitalization on the last trading day i.e. Tuesday was Rs 459.50 lakh crore. In this way, investors made a profit of about Rs 2.97 lakh crore from today's trading.
Today, there was active trading in 4,049 shares in BSE during the day's trading. Of these, 2,716 shares closed with gains, while 1,237 shares closed with a decline, while 96 shares closed without any movement. There was active trading in 2,510 shares in NSE today. Of these, 1,708 shares closed in the green after earning profit and 802 shares closed in the red after incurring a loss. Similarly, out of 30 shares included in Sensex, 16 shares closed with gains and 14 shares closed with decline. Out of 50 stocks included in Nifty, 27 stocks closed in the green mark and 23 stocks closed in the red mark.
BSE Sensex opened today with a rise of 319.77 points at the level of 81,954.58 points. This index fell to 81,692.46 points in early trading. However, after this, due to the announcement by RBI of not changing the interest rates and indicating that interest rates will be reduced in future, there was an atmosphere of enthusiasm in the market, due to which this index gained momentum. With the support of buying, this index rose by 684.40 points to reach today's highest level of 82,319.21 points. This market boom could not last long. In the second trading session of the day, profit booking started in selected stocks, due to which this index fell by about 1 thousand points from the upper level and fell by 291.92 points to 81,342.89 points. Due to buying in the last half hour of trading, the Sensex recovered about 120 points from the lower level and closed at 81,467.10 with a fall of 167.71 points.
Like the Sensex, NSE's Nifty started trading today at 25,065.80 points with a gain of 52.65 points. After the opening of the market, due to profit booking, this index fell to 25,031.35 points, but after 10 am, as soon as the monetary policy of RBI was announced, a bullish atmosphere was created in the market. With the support of continuous buying, this index jumped by 220.90 points to reach 25,234.05 points in a short time. However, due to selling pressure in the second trading session of the day, this index slipped more than 285 points from the upper level and fell by 65.45 points to 24,947.70 points. After buying and selling throughout the day, Nifty closed at 24,981.95 points with a fall of 31.20 points.
List of today's top 5 gainers among the big stocks of the stock market after buying and selling throughout the day – Cipla by 2.43 percent, Trent Limited by 2.22 percent, Tata Motors by 2.10 percent, State Bank of India by 2.04 percent and Maruti Suzuki by 1.83 percent. Joined. ITC 3.20 percent, Nestle 2.55 percent, Hindustan Unilever 1.77 percent, Britannia 1.73 percent and ONGC 1.69 percent joined the list of today's top 5 losers.