Indian Stock Market Recovers From Days Low However Sensex Closes 360 Points Down In Todays Trade

Stock Market Closing On 20th March 2023: The Indian stock market has had to bear the brunt of the banking crisis in America and Europe. There has been a big decline in the Indian stock market on the first trading day of the week. Due to profit-booking by investors, the Sensex fell by 900 points and the Nifty by 270 points during the day. Although the market recovered from the lower level. Despite this, the BSE Sensex fell by 300 points at 57,689 points and the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty closed at 17001 with a fall of 100 points.

sectorol update

In today’s trade, there has been a decline in the shares of Banking, IT, Metals, Energy, Consumer Durables, Oil & Gas and Healthcare sectors. While the stock of FMCG, media sector remained fast. The mid-cap and small-cap indices also closed down. Out of 30 Sensex stocks, 5 stocks closed in green mark and 25 in red mark. Of the 50 Nifty stocks, 13 advanced while 37 closed down.

index name	closure level	high level	low levels	percentage change
BSE Sensex	57,701.18	57,829.23	57,084.91	-0.50%
BSE Small Cap	26,911.84	27,128.41	26,780.96	-0.94%
India VIX	16.01	17.22	14.52	0.08
NIFTY Midcap 100	29,782.55	30,139.35	29,543.15	-1.03%
NIFTY Smallcap 100	9,005.85	9,122.10	8,948.65	-0.98%
nifty smallcap 50	4,100.25	4,142.00	4,070.20	-0.67%
Nifty 100	16,852.90	16,922.75	16,700.25	-0.66%
Nifty 200	8,846.20	8,889.35	8,767.55	-0.71%
Nifty 50	16,988.40	17,066.60	16,828.35	-0.65%

decline in investor wealth

There has been a decline in the wealth of investors. The market cap of companies listed on the stock market BSE has come down to Rs 255.64 lakh crore, which was Rs 257.59 lakh crore on Friday. That is, in today’s trading session, there has been a dent in the wealth of investors to the tune of Rs 1.95 lakh crore.