Finance
Stock Market Highlights, Tuesday, May 6, 2025: Benchmark Indian equity indices fell on Tuesday, dragged down by widespread selling across industries. The BSE Sensex fell by 155.77 points, or 0.19 percent, to end at 80,641.07, while the NSE Nifty50 down 81.55 points, or 0.33 percent, to 24,379.60.
The leading laggards among the Sensex members were Eternal (formerly Zomato), State Bank of India (SBI), Tata Motors, NTPC, and Adani Ports, which fell between 1.94 and 3.15 percent. Bharti Airtel, Tata Steel, Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), Hindustan Unilever, and Nestle India were among the ten Sensex stocks that finished higher, with gains of up to 1.66 percent.
The broader markets experienced a more severe sell-off. The Nifty Midcap100 and Smallcap100 indices decreased by 2.27 and 2.5 percent, respectively.
Except for Nifty Auto, all of the NSE’s sectoral indexes finished lower, with the Nifty PSU Bank index being the worst impacted, with all 12 member companies falling. The index fell 4.84 percent, pulled by Bank of Baroda (10.91%), Bank of India (6.19%), and Union Bank of India (6.33%).
This was followed by real estate stocks, as the Nifty Realty index fell 3.58 percent, led by Godrej Properties (6.36%) and Sobha (4.96%).
Meanwhile, the fear index (India VIX), which measures market volatility, ended up 3.58 percent at 19 points.
Source: BS
