Benchmark Sensex and Nifty closed marginally down in uneven commerce on Tuesday, extending losses for a 3rd straight day as traders remained cautious forward of the discharge of minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) assembly.
The BSE Sensex edged down 18.82 factors or 0.03 per cent to settle at 60,672.72 as 17 of its constituents declined whereas 13 superior. During the day, it hit a low of 60,583.72 and a excessive of 60,976.59.
The NSE Nifty slipped 17.90 factors or 0.1 per cent to finish at 17,826.70 with 30 of its scrips ending within the pink.
Sensex has declined over 1 per cent or 646 factors whereas Nifty retreated by 1.36 per cent or 209 factors in three periods to Tuesday.
From the Sensex pack, Tata Motors, Sun Pharma, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services, ExtremelyTech Cement, Tech Mahindra, Bajaj Finserv, HCL Technologies, Infosys and IndusInd Bank had been the main laggards.
NTPC, Power Grid, Reliance Industries, Tata Steel, HDFC and HDFC Bank had been the main winners.
“Despite opening gains, negative cues from global peers cast a shadow over investor sentiments. Underpinned by inflationary concerns, the market is keenly eyeing the US fed meeting minutes, scheduled to be released on Wednesday, for hints on further monetary policy tightening,” stated Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services.
Risk urge for food was additional hammered by FIIs turning web sellers and concern of El Nino climate occasion, Nair stated.
“Markets had been extraordinarily vary sure with a damaging bias because the shutdown of the US markets on Monday prompted traders to take a cautious stance.
“In fact, the markets have been more or less sluggish to negative over the past few sessions due to factors like rising interest rates, higher inflation, lingering geo-political tensions, and slowing growth,” stated Shrikant Chouhan, Head of Equity Research (Retail), Kotak Securities.
In the broader market, the BSE smallcap gauge dipped 0.31 per cent and midcap index declined 0.21 per cent.
Among the sectoral indices, realty declined 1.03 per cent, IT slipped 0.83 per cent, teck dipped 0.82 per cent, oil & gasoline (0.52 per cent), commodities (0.48 per cent) and telecommunication (0.44 per cent).
FMCG, industrials, utilities, capital items and energy had been the winners.
In Asian markets, South Korea and China ended within the inexperienced, whereas Hong Kong and Japan settled decrease.
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