Muhurat Trading 2024: The festival of Diwali was celebrated with great pomp in the country and the world on 31 October. The stock markets remained open on the day of Diwali and closed with a big decline. Today i.e. on November 1, there is a Diwali holiday in the Indian stock market and the 1-hour Muhurat trading session running from 6 pm to 7 pm has started. Following the old pattern on Muhurat trading, the market opened once again with a big jump today. Today the BSE Sensex opened with a gain of 634.69 points at 80,023.75 points and the Nifty opened with a gain of 97.40 points at 24,302.75 points.
Shares of 28 out of 30 Sensex companies opened in the green mark
Today, when Muhurat trading started, the shares of 28 out of 30 Sensex companies opened in the green with a gain, while the shares of 2 companies opened in the red with a loss. Similarly, the shares of 45 out of 50 Nifty 50 companies opened in the green with a gain, while the shares of the remaining 5 companies opened in the red with a loss.
Mahindra & Mahindra shares fell the most
At the start of trading, Mahindra & Mahindra shares, one of the Sensex companies, opened with the highest increase of 3.22 percent today. Shares of Tata Motors opened with a gain of 1.36 percent, Indusind Bank 1.29 percent, Axis Bank 1.25 percent, Kotak Mahindra Bank 1.03 percent, Bajaj Finserv 1.03 percent, Titan 1.01 percent, NTPC shares opened with a gain of 1.00 percent.
Shares of these companies also opened with profit
Apart from these, shares of Maruti Suzuki, Tata Steel, UltraTech Cement, Asian Paints, Bajaj Finance, Nestle India, Reliance Industries, ITC, Bharti Airtel, State Bank of India, Adani Ports, TCS, JSW Steel, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech, Larsen & Toubro, PowerGrid, Hindustan Unilever, HDFC Bank and Infosys opened in the green with gains.
On the other hand, Sun Pharma shares opened in the loss with a decline of 0.37 percent and ICICI Bank shares opened in the loss with a decline of 0.12 percent.