Stock Market Today: The fourth trading session of the week in the Indian stock market on Thursday, November 20, had a positive start to the trading day. Benchmark indices BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 opened trading in the green. The 30-share BSE Sensex index opened at 85,470.92 with a rise of 284.45 points or 0.33 per cent, while the NSE Nifty 50 opened at 26,132.10 with a rise of 79.45 points or 0.30 per cent.

By around 9:20 am, the Sensex was trading at 85,357 points, up by 171 points, while the Nifty 50 was trading at 26,102, up 49 points.

BSE top gainers

Adani Port, Reliance, Axis Bank, Mahindra & Mahindra

BSE’s top losers

HCL Tech, Maruti, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank

How was the market on Wednesday?

On Wednesday, November 19, there was a tremendous rise in the Indian stock market and both the major benchmark indices closed trading in the green. Sensex ended the trading day at 85,186.4 points with a rise of 513.45 points or 0.61 percent, while NSE Nifty 50 recorded a rise of 142.60 points or 0.55 percent and ended the trading day at the level of 26,052.65.

HCL Tech, INFY, TCS, SunPharma and Titan were the top gainers from the BSE basket. Talking about the top losers, Maruti, Bajaj Finance, Adani Port, NTPC and ITC were. Nifty Bank, Nifty Midcap 100, Nifty IT, Nifty 100, Nifty Auto, Nifty MMCG closed trading in the green.

At the same time, a decline was recorded in the shares of Nifty Smallcap 100. On Wednesday’s trading day, 19 shares from BSE basket closed in the green and 11 shares recorded a decline.

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