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Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: The benchmark equity indices saw a poor close to Friday’s trading session. The BSE Sensex drops 170.13 points, or 0.24%, to 72,240.26, while the NSE Nifty 50 fell 47.30 points, or 0.22%, to close at 21,731.40. Largecap stocks led the decline in the overall indices, which concluded in the red. The Bank Nifty index ended at 48,292.25, down 216.30 points, or 0.45%. PSU Banks and the oil and gas industry fell, while FMCG and real estate stocks rose. On the NSE Nifty 50, the top gainers were Tata Consumers, Tata Motors, Bajaj Auto, Nestle India, and Adani Enterprises; the top losers were BPCL, State Bank of India, ONGC, Infosys, and Coal India. The Indian VIX, or Volatility Index, ended the day lower by 4.21%.
Shares in the Asia-Pacific region are trading mostly in mixed territory on Friday morning. The Asia Dow is trading up by 1.34%, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is red, down by 0.42%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index is trading up by 2.52% and the benchmark Chinese index Shanghai Composite is trading higher by 1.38%.
The US Dollar Index (DXY), which measures the value of the dollar against a basket of six foreign currencies, traded up by 0.22% at 101.21.
A banner year for stocks is drawing to a close, with gains in big tech leaving the market near all-time highs amid the artificial intelligence exuberance and dovish Federal Reserve bets, reports Bloomberg. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dipped just 4.04 points or 0.03% at 15,095.14. The S&P 500 gained by just 1.77 points or 0.04% at 4,783.35, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended higher by 53.58 points or 0.14% to 37,710.10.
Source:FE
