By Admin 
Stock Market Today: The beginning of the trading day on Monday, February 16 in the Indian stock market was negative. Major benchmark indices BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 opened trading in the red. However, after the initial fall, the stock market regained its momentum and started trading in the green.
The 30-share BSE Sensex index slipped 146.36 points or 0.18 per cent. Sensex started the day at the level of 82,480.40. At the same time, a decline is also being seen in NSE Nifty 50. Nifty 50 fell 47.50 points or 0.19 percent and opened at the level of 25,423.60.
By around 9:20 am, the Sensex was trading at 82,591 points, down by 35 points. Whereas Nifty 50 had fallen by 2 points and was trading at the level of 25,469.
BSE’s top gainers and losers
The top gainers on BSE were PowerGrid, TCS, NTPC, Kotak Bank and HCL Tech. Talking about the top losers, there were Adani Port, Titan, SBI N and Trent.
Mixed business in US market
On the last trading day of the week, the major stock indices of America had different directions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 49,500.93 with a gain of 48.95 points or 0.10 percent.
The S&P 500 also rose 3.41 points or 0.05 percent to reach 6,836.17. However, Nasdaq Composite showed weakness and it slipped 50.48 points or 0.22 percent and closed at 22,546.67.
How was the market on Friday?
There was a huge decline in the Indian stock market on the trading day of Friday, 13 February. Major benchmark indices BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 had turned red like tomatoes. Sensex fell by 1048.16 points or 1.25 percent to 82,626.76 points, while NSE Nifty 50 slipped by 336.10 points or 1.30 percent and ended the trading day at 25,471.10.
Bajaj Finance and SBIN were the top gainers from BSE basket. Talking about the top losers, there were Eternal, Tata Steel, Titan, TCS and Power Grid.
There was a decline in the shares of Nifty 100, Nifty Bank, Nifty FMCG, Nifty Midcap 100, Nifty Smallcap 100, Nifty Auto and Nifty IT. On Friday’s trading day, only 2 shares from the BSE basket closed in the green and 28 shares recorded a decline.
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