Finance
Stock Market Crash Highlights, Monday, February 10, 2025: The benchmark equity indices, the BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50, fell in the opening trading session of the week, pulled down by cross-counter selling. The 30-share Sensex fell as far as 548.39 points, or 0.70 percent, to end at 77,311.80. On Monday, the index traded between 77,849.58 and 77,106.89.
The NSE Nifty50, like the Sensex, ended lower by 178.35 points, or 0.76 percent, at 23,381.60. The Nifty50 hit a day high of 23,568.60 and a low of 23,316.30.
The day finished in favor of the bears, as 39 out of the 50 member stocks of the Nifty50 closed in the red, led by Trent, Tata Steel, Power Grid Corp, Titan, and ONGC, with losses extending up to 4.48 per cent. Meanwhile, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bharti Airtel, Britannia, Tata Consumer Products, and HCL Tech were among the 11 constituent stocks that ended in the green, with gains extending up to 1.74 per cent.
Broader markets matched the benchmarks, with the Nifty Smallcap100 and Nifty Midcap100 indices falling 2.12% and 2.11%, respectively.
The fear index, India VIX, which measures market volatility, ended up 5.55 points at 14.45.
All of the NSE’s sectoral indices closed in the red on Monday. The Nifty Metal, Realty, Healthcare, Consumer Durables, Media, and select Consumer Durables indices all fell by more than 2%.
Source: BS
