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Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: The benchmark equity indices experienced a negative closing value. The BSE Sensex shed 1,019.27 points, or 1.43%, to close at 70,404.80, while the NSE Nifty 50 closed 331 points, or 1.53%, lower at 21,240.80. The midcap and smallcap equities led the losses on the larger indices as they closed lower. At 46,595.10, the Bank Nifty index closed lower, down 1,467.70 points or 3.05%.
Cipla, Sun Pharma, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, and Hero MotoCorp were the top gainers in the Nifty 50. While IndusInd Bank, Coal India, ONGC, SBI LIfe Insurance, Adani Ports were the key laggards.
Shares in the Asia-Pacific region ended Monday’s session in mixed territory. The Asia Dow is trading up by 0.99%, where as the Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading in green, up by 0.79%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index is trading higher by 0.75% and the benchmark Chinese index Shanghai Composite is trading lower by 0.61% during the early trade hours.
The US Dollar Index (DXY), which measures the value of the dollar against a basket of six foreign currencies, traded higher by 0.03% at 103.36.
Wall Street rose higher continuing the optimism built after indices were record high. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.32% at 15,360.29. The S&P 500 surged by 0.22% at 4,850.43 to reach a fresh all-time high, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended higher by 138.01 points or 0.36% at 38,001.81.
Source:FE
