MUMBAI: Domestic stock markets closed down today due to weak signals from global markets as well as profit booking in groups such as health care banking and finance at the domestic level. During this period, the BSE Sensex slipped 400 points and the NSE Nifty slipped 105 points.
The BSE Sensex fell 400.3 4 points to 5170 3.83 points. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) Nifty fell 104.55 points to 1520 at 8.90 points.
While the selling was seen in the big companies, the Diwali trend continued in the medium and small companies. Due to this, the mid-cap of BSE rose 0.04 per cent to 20228.07 points and the small cap rose by 0.5 per cent to 19778.67 points.
A total of 3107 companies traded on the BSE during the session, of which 1476 were in the green mark and 1491 in the red mark. There was no change in 140 companies.
Most of the group included in the BSE saw sellouts, including health care 0.9 percent, banking 0.70 percent and finance 0.88 percent. The power group recorded the highest increase of 1.2 6 percent.
Globally, Japan’s Nikki 0.5 fell 1 percent, Germany’s DAX 0.61 percent and Britain’s FTSE fell 0.22 percent, barring China’s Shanghai Composite 1 point 4 3 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng 1.10 percent.
