New Delhi. The 6-day continuous rise in the stock market was halted on Friday (September 27). Most of the market indexes closed in red. After touching a new record level in the morning trade, the Sensex slipped 246 points at the end of the trade while the Nifty fell below 26,200. At the end of the trade, the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex (BSE Sensex) closed at 85,571.85 with a fall of 264.27 points or 0.31 percent. At the same time, the National Stock Exchange's Nifty (NSE Nifty) closed at 26,175.15, falling 40.90 points or 0.16 percent.
Banking stocks remained under the most pressure in the market. Nifty Bank closed down 541 points or 1 percent at 53,834 points. During trading, both Sensex and Nifty made new all-time highs of 85,978 points and 26,277 points respectively.
Top Gainers and Losers
Among the Sensex companies, Sun Pharma, Reliance Industries, Titan, HCL Tech, Bajaj Finserv, Asian Paints, NTPC, IndusInd Bank, Tata Steel, Maruti Suzuki, Infosys, TCS, SBI, Mahindra & Mahindra and ITC were the top gainers. Power Grid, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, L&T, UltraTech Cement, HUL, JSW Steel and Axis Bank were the top losers.
Investors earned ₹ 78,000 crores
The total market cap of companies listed on BSE increased to Rs 477.94 lakh crore on 26 September, which was Rs 477.16 lakh crore on 26 September. In this way, the market cap of companies listed on BSE has increased by about Rs 78 thousand crores today. In simple words, the wealth of investors has increased by about Rs 78 thousand crores today.
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