By Admin 
Stock Market Today: The first trading session of the week in the Indian stock market on Monday, January 5, started on a negative note. Major benchmark indices BSE Sensex opened trading on the red mark and NSE Nifty 50 on the green mark.
However, Nifty also turned red at the beginning of the trading day. The 30-share BSE Sensex index opened at 85,640.05 points, down 121.96 points or 0.14 percent, while the NSE Nifty 50 opened at 26,333.70 points, up 5.15 points or 0.02 percent.
By around 9:24 am, the Sensex was trading at 85,729 points, down by 32 points. Whereas Nifty 50 was trading at the level of 26,323 after slipping 5 points.
BSE top gainers
Tata Steel, Axis Bank, Reliance and Asian Paint
BSE’s top losers
HCL Tech, Trent, Tech Mahindra and TCS
How was the market on Friday?
On Friday, January 2, there was a tremendous rise in the Indian stock market and both the major benchmark indices closed trading in the green. Sensex rose by 573.41 points or 0.67 percent to 85,762.01 points, while NSE Nifty 50 jumped by 182.00 points or 0.70 percent to end the trading day at 26,328.55.
NTPC, Trent, Bajaj Finance, PowerGrid and Maruti were the top gainers from the BSE basket. Talking about the top losers, ITC, Kotak Bank, Axis Bank and Bharti Airtel were there. There was a rise in the shares of Nifty IT, Nifty 100, Nifty Midcap, Nifty Bank, Nifty Auto and Nifty Smallcap.
There was a decline in Nifty FMCG shares. On Friday’s trading day, 25 shares from the BSE basket closed in the green and 5 shares recorded a decline.
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