Amidst the optimism of investors over global trade tension, continuous purchases of FIIs and the fall in crude oil prices, the Indian stock market today closed with an increase in the index led by veteran Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank.
However, the improvement of banking shares was limited due to the weakening of banking shares amidst an increase in auto, FMCG, metal and pharma shares. Today, Nifty closed to 24,450 for the first time in 2025. With this, the index in 12 of the last 16 trading sessions has closed with an increase and during this time the Sensex and Nifty have increased by more than 10 per cent.
The Sensex created the highest level of 81,049 and a minimum level of 80,657 after opening with a gain of 160 points in the beginning. Thus, after a total fluctuations of 392 points, the Sensex closed at 80,796 with a gain of 294 points, or 0.37 per cent,. Even today the Sensex crossed the 81,000 mark in Intrade. The Nifty also opened 73 points at the beginning, then the highest level of 24,526 and a minimum level of 24,400 during intraday and closed at 114 points or 0.47 points at 24,461 points at the end after 126 points fluctuations. Today, midcap and smallcap stocks saw a much higher rise than largecap shares. The BSE Midcap index rose 618 points or 1.45 percent to close at 43,326, while the smallcap index rose 584 points or 1.23 percent to close at 47,949. The BSE SME IPO index also rose 1,307 points or 1.44 percent to close at 92,145.
Today, BSE traded a total of 4,202 shares, out of which 2,562 declined, 1,460 declined and 180 shares did not change. BSE’s M-cap is Rs 1,49,999 today. 427.48 lakh crore or 5.07 trillion dollars were recorded, which was Rs. 422.81 crores This indicates an increase of Rs 4.67 lakh crore. Sensex closed 19 shares out of 30 shares and 38 out of 50 of Nifty. Today the instability index rose 0.43 percent to 18.34. The Nifty closed up 10 out of 14 regional indices and closed with 4 declines.
