Finance
Stock Market Highlights today, Wednesday, August 20, 2025: After over a month, the NSE Nifty 50 index was able to regain the 25,000 threshold thanks to the 5-day market rebound. The last time the index closed above 25,000 was on July 24.
The NSE Nifty 50 index rose to an intra-day high of 25,089 today, driven by robust advances in IT sectors, and ultimately ended the day up 70 points, or 0.3%, at 25,050 levels. Over the course of the last five consecutive trading sessions, the Nifty has risen 563 points.
The BSE Sensex, on the other hand, rose 213 points, or 0.3%, to 81,858 after peaking at 81,986.
Infosys rallied nearly 4 per cent to ₹1,495 levels, and alone contributed 165 points to the BSE Sensex tally. That apart, TCS, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies also finished with gains in the range of 1 – 3 per cent. Analysts attributed the gains to value-buying following the prolonged period of underperformance so far this calendar year.
That apart, Hindustan Unilever, NTPC, Tata Steel, Eternal, Bharti Airtel and Mahindra & Mahindra were the other prominent winners within the BSE Sensex. On the flip side, Bharat Electronics (BEL) dropped 2 per cent. Bajaj Finance and Tata Motors also declined over 1 per cent each.
The BSE MidCap index gained 0.4% and the SmallCap index gained 0.3% today, indicating that the broader indices also ended the day higher.
The BSE Realty index went up 1% while the BSE IT index jumped 2.6% among industries. With 2,347 shares rising against 1,718 decreasing equities on the BSE, the overall market breadth was positive.
Nazara Technologies’ shares fell 13% among individual stocks following the government’s proposal of a draft bill that would outlaw all online real-money gambling (RMG). “Offering, aiding, abetting, inducing, or otherwise in the offering of any online money gaming service and declares it as an offence” is likely to be prohibited under the draft Bill, which was approved by the Union Cabinet on Tuesday.
Source: BS
