Stock Market Updates: Sensex Falls Over 150 pts, Nifty Below 18,100; Key Points to Know

Last Update: December 28, 2022, 09:25 AM IST

FILE PHOTO: A man looks across the street at a screen displaying the Sensex on the façade of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India, June 29, 2015.  Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

FILE PHOTO: A man looks across the street at a screen displaying the Sensex on the façade of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India, June 29, 2015. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

Sensex Today: Domestic markets opened on a negative note on Wednesday amid weak global cues, weak foreign inflows, rising crude oil prices.

Sensex Today: Domestic markets opened on a negative note on Wednesday amid weak global sentiment, weak foreign inflows and rising crude oil prices. The Sensex closed at 60794.57, down 132.86 points or 0.22 per cent. smelly It closed at 18090.50, down 41.80 points or 0.23 per cent.

Hindalco Industries, Infosys, ONGC, Tata Steel and Bajaj auto Power Grid Corp, NTPC, Divis Labs, UPL and Asian Paints were among the major losers, while gains were on the cards.

Broader markets also fell as the Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 indices declined up to 0.4 per cent each. volatility gauge, India The VIX, meanwhile, climbed more than 1 percent.

All sectors sank into the red sea with Nifty IT, Nifty PSU Bank and Nifty Metal indices falling up to 0.8 per cent.

global signal

Globally, US markets turned weak overnight as the NASDAQ Composite index declined the most by 1 per cent. The decline followed an 11 percent drop in Tesla on reports that production at the Shanghai facility would continue. The Dow Jones, on the other hand, closed flat while the S&P 500 fell 0.4 percent.

Meanwhile, Asia-Pacific markets were lower this morning with the Nikkei 225, Topix, Kospi and S&P 200 indices down up to 1 per cent each.

In the commodity market, Brent crude and WTI crude prices climbed up to $84 per barrel and $79 per barrel, respectively, on the back of Russia’s ban on crude oil exports to countries that have been banned.

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