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Stock Market LIVE Updates, October 10, 2025: On Friday, equity benchmark indices closed higher for the second straight trading session, boosted by increases in pharmaceutical and financial stocks. Select car and energy stocks also posted impressive gains.
The BSE Sensex opened 100 points lower at 82,075 due to weakness in IT sectors, but quickly recovered and soared to a high of 82,654, up 579 points in intraday trading. The Sensex ended at 82,501, up 329 points or 0.4 percent.
The NSE Nifty 50 touched a high of 25,331, and eventually settled 104 points or 0.4 per cent higher at 25,285. In the process, the NSE benchmark index posted its largest weekly rise (1.6%) in slightly more than three months, since June 27, 2025.
Among the Sensex equities, SBI gained more than 2 percent. Other big gainers included Maruti Suzuki, Axis Bank, Eternal, Adani Ports, and Power Grid, all of which rose by more than 1%. Tata Steel fell 1.5 percent, while TCS fell 1 percent a day after presenting Q2 results.
Among the broader indices, the BSE Midcap increased 0.4%, while the Smallcap rose 0.6%. The overall breadth was also pretty favorable, with almost 2,480 stocks increasing on the BSE and 1,700 dropping shares.
BSE Healthcare and Bankex both increased by 1%, while auto and capital goods gained 0.5% apiece.
Aside from that, textile company shares rose up to 17% in intraday trading following forecasts that India-UK trade might treble by 2030.
Source: BS
