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Stock Market Today: The beginning of the last trading day of the week, Friday, March 13, in the Indian stock market was negative. Major benchmark indices BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 opened trading in the red.
The 30-share BSE Sensex index opened with a fall of 590.20 points or 0.78 percent. Sensex started the day at the level of 75,444.22. At the same time, a decline is also being seen in NSE Nifty 50. Nifty 50 slipped 176.65 points or 0.75 percent and opened at the level of 23,462.50.
By around 9:20 am, the Sensex was trading at 75,467 points, down by 566 points. Whereas Nifty 50 had slipped 185 points and was trading at the level of 23,453.
BSE’s top gainers and losers
Till the time of writing the news, PowerGrid, NTPC, ITC and Reliance were the top gainers from the BSE basket. Talking about the top losers, L&T, Tata Steel, Indigo, HDFC Bank and Mahindra & Mahindra were.
Weakness in Asian markets
The fear of rising inflation due to rising crude oil prices has put pressure on Asian stock markets on Friday. The Nikkei 225 fell nearly 2 percent during trading, while the Topix index saw a decline of about 1.4 percent.
Whereas in South Korea, Kospi index was down by about 3 percent. Apart from this, Hang Seng Index also showed signs of a weak start.
How was the market on Thursday?
There was a huge decline in the Indian stock market on the trading day of Thursday, March 12. Major benchmark indices BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 ended the day trading in the red. Sensex fell by 829.29 points or 1.08 percent to close at 76,034.42 points, while NSE Nifty 50 slipped by 227.70 points or 0.95 percent and closed at the level of 23,639.15.
NTPC, PowerGrid, Tech Mahindra, Reliance and HCL Tech were the top gainers from the BSE basket. Talking about the top losers, they were Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti, Bajaj Finance, L&T and Trent.
There was a decline in the shares of Nifty 100, Nifty Bank, Nifty Auto, Nifty FMCG, Nifty Smallcap 100, Nifty IT and Nifty Midcap 100. On Thursday’s trading day, 6 shares from BSE basket closed in the green and 24 shares recorded a decline.
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