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Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights : The main equity indices saw a dismal close to Tuesday’s trading session. The BSE Sensex fell 379.46 points, or 0.53%, to 71,892.48, while the NSE Nifty 50 fell 76.10 points, or 0.35%, to end at 21,660.25. The large- and small-cap stocks led the decline in the overall indices, which concluded in the red. The Bank Nifty index closed at 47,761.65, down 472.65 points, or 0.98%. On the NSE Nifty 50, the top gainers were Divis Labs, Adani Ports and SEZ, Coal India, Sun Pharma, Coal India, and Cipla; the laggards were Eicher Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Ultra Tech Cement, L&T, and Kotak Mahindra Bank. The Indian VIX, or Volatility Index, ended the day lower by 0.68%.
Source: NSE
Shares in the Asia-Pacific region are trading mostly in mixed territory on Tuesday morning. The Asia Dow is trading up by 0.46%, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is red, down by 0.22%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index is trading up by 0.02% and the benchmark Chinese index Shanghai Composite is trading higher by 0.68%.
The US Dollar Index (DXY), which measures the value of the dollar against a basket of six foreign currencies, traded up by 0.01% at 101.39.
Stock market in the US had a trading holiday on 1st Jan. Previously on Friday Bloomberg reported that the Wall Street’s final session of 2023 saw stocks taking a breather after a rally that put the market on pace for its ninth straight week of gains—the longest winning streak since 2004. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dipped 68.65 points or 0.45% at 15,026.49. The S&P 500 dropped by 11.36 points or 0.24% at 4,771.99, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended lower by 36.83 points or 0.10% to 37,673.27.
Source:FE
