.Securities Market Highlights today, August 5, 2024: Equity benchmark indices, BSE Sensex as well as the NSE Nifty, dropped sharplyon Monday to finish in the hole, in tandem with losses one of global peers. At close, the Sensex went to 78,768.42, down as much as 2,222.5 points or even 2.74 per-cent. The mark plunged almost 3 per-cent to reach the time’s low of 78,296 on Monday.Mirroring the Sensex, the Nifty50 likewise rolled 662 factors or 2.68 percent to resolve at 24,055.6.
After publishing a gap-down position, the index tumbled 3.33 per cent to strike Monday’s low of 23,894.The fear index, India VIX, ended at 20.37 points, up 42.23 per-cent, signifying enormous dryness on the market. The dryness mark zoomed 61 per-cent intraday to 23.15 amounts, signifying its own biggest rise given that 2015.Bears consumed as forty five away from the 50 detailed stocks on Nifty50 submitted an adverse closing. Tata Motors, ONGC, Adani Slots, Tata Steel, as well as Hindalco were actually the leading laggards, clocking around 7-per cent loss.From the BSE space, 28 away from the 30 elements of the Sensex ended lower, along with Tata Motors and also Adani Slots being the best laggards.
Merely Hindustan Unilever as well as Nestle India managed to end in the environment-friendly.In the broader markets, the Nifty SmallCap and MidCap marks dropped 4.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent, specifically.The sectoral indices additionally faced pandemonium, finishing in red along with reductions in Automobile, Metallic, IT, and Financial sectors of around 4.85 percent.