Stock Market Today: The beginning of the second trading day of the week, Monday, April 21, in the Indian stock market was positive. Major benchmark indices BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 opened trading in the green.

The 30-share BSE Sensex index opened with a gain of 96.86 points or 0.12 percent. Sensex started the day at the level of 78,617.16. At the same time, NSE Nifty 50 also started the day positive. Nifty 50 jumped 9.70 points or 0.04 percent and opened at the level of 24,374.55.

By around 9:20 am, the Sensex was trading at 78,950 points, up 430 points. Whereas Nifty 50 had jumped 117 points and was trading at the level of 24,480.

BSE’s top gainers and losers

Adani Port, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, L&T and Bajaj Finance were the top gainers from the BSE basket. Talking about the top losers, there were Tech Mahindra, TCS and INFY.

How was the market on Monday?

There was a rise in the Indian stock market on the trading day of Monday, April 20. Major benchmark indices BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 ended the day trading in the green. Sensex closed at 78,520.30 with a rise of 26.76 points or 0.03 percent, while NSE Nifty 50 closed at 24,364.85 with a rise of 11.30 points or 0.05 percent.

Trent, SBIN, NTPC, Bajaj Finance and Indigo were the top gainers from the BSE basket. Talking about the top losers, Kotak Bank, L&T, HCLTech, ITC and Tech Mahindra were.

There was a rise in the shares of Nifty 100, Nifty Auto and Nifty Bank. Whereas a decline was recorded in the shares of Nifty FMCG, Nifty IT, Nifty Smallcap 100 and Nifty Midcap 100. On Monday’s trading day, 12 shares from BSE basket closed on the green mark and 18 shares recorded a decline.

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