After a massive fall on Thursday, the Indian stock market opened with some decline on Friday, the last trading day of the week. The Bombay Stock Exchange index Sensex opened today at 82,244, down 253 points. In early trade, 18 of the 30 Sensex stocks were seen trading in the red and 12 in the green. At the same time, the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty was seen trading at 25,181, down 0.27 percent or 68.20 points in early trade. In the last session on Thursday, the BSE Sensex closed at 82,497.10 points, down 1769.19 points. While the Nifty-50 closed at 25,250.10 points, down 546.80 points. Due to this, the Indian markets have come down significantly from their record highs.
These stocks saw a decline.
Talking about the stocks of the Nifty pack, the biggest decline was seen in BPCL by 2.51 percent, Bajaj Finance by 2.34 percent, Trent by 2.08 percent, Asian Paint by 1.51 percent and Hero Motocorp by 1.22 percent. Apart from this, ONGC rose by 1.39 percent, TCS by 0.79 percent, Wipro by 0.68 percent, HCL Tech by 0.62 percent and ITC by 0.55 percent.
The realty sector suffered the most.
Talking about sectoral indices, Nifty Realty has seen a maximum decline of 2.40 percent. Apart from this, Nifty Bank fell by 0.23 percent, Nifty Auto by 0.50 percent, Nifty Financial Services by 0.43 percent, Nifty FMCG by 0.34 percent, Nifty Media by 0.85 percent, Nifty Metal by 0.96 percent, Nifty Pharma by 0.62 percent, Nifty PSU Bank by 0.19 percent, Nifty Private Bank by 0.29 percent, Nifty Healthcare Index by 0.66 percent, Nifty Consumer Durables by 0.53 percent, Nifty Oil & Gas by 0.86 percent and Nifty Midsmall Healthcare by 0.978 percent. Apart from this, only Nifty IT saw a rise of 0.37 percent.