Budget 2025 Stock Market Highlights: Sensex closes 5 points up, Nifty stays red

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: The Sensex closed at 77,505.96 with a 5.39 point increase. Nifty on the other hand, remained in the red at 23,482.15, down 22.65 points.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Girish Wagh, the executive director of Tata Motors, which was trending down 9 points on the Sensex today, praised the Union Budget for the removal of basic custom duties on materials for battery manufacturing which will boost EV production.

"As infrastructure projects gain momentum and consumption picks up, improved roads, connectivity, and logistics will undoubtedly drive increased demand for freight and commercial transport solutions driven by both domestic demand and broader economic recovery," he added.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Zomato took the top spot on the Sensex, with 15 points increasing to a share price of 235. The Sensex is in the green and is expected to close with an increase of 60 points as compared to Friday.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Nifty Consumer Durables index gains 1,159.80 points as the overall Nifty continues to be red. Crompton, Blue Star Co and Bata India took the top spots on the index.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: The NSE has predicted that Nifty will close 16 points down, with share prices currently down 26 points.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: The BSE has predicted that the Sensex will close on Saturday at 77,559.34, with a 60 point increase after the special trading session of the markets due to the Union Budget 2025 presented in parliament

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Nifty is down by 6 points again after marginally recovering. Sensex has gained 60 points as markets continue to fluctuate after the Union Budget was presented in parliament.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Shares of agriculture companies surged up to 13 per cent on Saturday after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana during the Union Budget announcement, covering 100 districts with low yields, modern crop intensity and below-average credit parameters.

The scrip of Kaveri Seed Co soared 13.49 per cent to ₹1,020.70 apiece, Mangalam Seeds climbed 7.09 per cent to ₹222, Nath Bio-Genes grew 5.77 per cent to ₹178.60, Dhanuka Agritech increased 2.61 per cent to ₹1,479.35 and UPL grew 0.94 per cent to ₹609 on the BSE.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: NSE's Nifty gained 15 points after trending 20 points downward while continue to fluctuate post Budget.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: The BSE Sensex rose by 35 points at 2:37 pm as markets near a close after a special trading session due to the Union Budget presentation.

However, Nifty trended downwards by 20 points.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Stock indices opened with gains and traded with positive trends during the Budget presentation. However, soon after finance minister Sitharaman completed her Budget speech in Parliament, the 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex declined 494.1 points to 77,006.47 in the late afternoon trade.

The NSE Nifty went lower by 162.35 points to 23,346.05.

Later, the indices slowly recovered but kept shifting from turning red to green.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Indian cement companies' shares fell on Saturday after the government announced a 'modest' spending hike for infrastructure projects in the annual budget.

UltraTech Cement's shares dropped 2.7%, while those of rival Adani Group's cement firms Ambuja and ACC slumped 4.5% and 2.3% respectively.

Other big cement firms - Shree and Dalmia Bharat - declined 3% and 2% respectively.

The Indian government said it will spend a record 11.21 trillion rupees ($129.54 billion) on infrastructure in the upcoming financial year that begins on April 1, but the increase in planned spending disappointed markets.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Larsen & Toubro hit the bottom of the BSE Sensex on Saturday after the Union Budget presentation in parliament. The company was down by 151 points, followed by Powergrid and Ultracemco.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Nifty Auto has gained by 478 points as the Nifty generally trends low, down 12 points. The auto industry received a boost after the Union Budget was presented, with Maruti gaining by 620 points.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Heena Khushalani, Partner - climate change and sustainability services, EY India, said that the 2025 budget announcement was definitely aimed at integrating the government's green agenda alongside India's robust growth.

“The clear focus to support cleantech manufacturing incl. support to lithium-ion batteries is a welcome move to reduce our dependency on exports. The National Nuclear Mission outlay of 20k crore alongside private sector participation will certainly bolster India's energy transition. The budget also has a good focus on boosting climate resilience and agricultural productivity, fisheries and these are all measures required to support the sustainable growth of rural India,” she said.

"While the budget does show the government's commitment towards sustainable growth, an enhanced focus on adaptation financing and climate finance taxonomy is required/have been amiss to boost sustainable finance would be necessary,” she added.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: After a long period of losses, the Sensex gained 50 points although was Nifty still down by 12 points. After the Budget speech ended, Sensex fell more than 450 points and Nifty fell 150 points.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Nifty and Sensex continue to fall, with the Nifty down by 75 points and Sensex by 138 points after the Budget speech. While the market was fluctuating for a while, it is mostly trending downwards at the moment apart from FMCG companies, who have made massive gains.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Ms. Anitha Rangan, Economist, Equirus said that the Union Budget 2025 had embodied a reform-centric, longer term vision which included all stakeholders including states and public-private partnerships.

Rangan said strong execution was needed to follow through on the policy and consumption centric Budget.

“With a special focus on long term investment encompassing, people, economy and innovation, the fund mechanism of funding will encompass private participation. In addition, there is focus on urban development and revitalization of asset monitisation along with clean energy which suggests more longer term focus. While capex growth does not look very robust, implicit capex via long term reforms shows promise,” she said.

She also added that that the tax reliefs introduced at the end of the Budget speech were “the icing in the cake."

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Insurance companies such as SBI Life and HDFC Life rose 2.3% each, while ICICI Prudential Life gained 3% after the Union Budget presentation concluded.

The rise was due to the government announcing that they will raise the foreign direct investment limit to 100% in the insurance sector.

Pipe and infrastructure companies also gained after the government extended a scheme to enhance water supply for till 2028.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: While Indian shares inched lower after the Budget announcement, consumption-linked sectors such as fast-moving consumer goods rose 3.1%, while auto gained 2.1%, due to a cut in personal income tax rates in a bid to boost consumption.

Fertiliser companies also rose after the government announced a further increase in urea supply.

"The budget has met market expectations, with focus on consumption revival, capex leading to some positivity," said Gaurav Dua, senior vice president and head of capital market strategy at Mirae Asset Sharekhan.

"The muted reaction of the benchmarks to the budget is because of no major negative surprises," Dua added.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: The Nifty index for the FMCG sector was up by 2006 points, raking in massive gains as compared to the rest of the markets which have been trending downwards.

Britannia, Hindustan Lever and Godrej Consumer Products Limited, made the biggest gains, with their shares rising 245, 106 and 70 points respectively.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: As the rest of the markets trend downwards, Maruti shares have increased by 635 points taking the top spot on the BSE Sensex.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: 17 out of 30 companies on the BSE Sensex noted losses in their shares after the Union Budget speech.

Ultracemco was hit the worst, down by 427 points. Larsen and Toubro (L&T) were also down by 113 points.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: Nifty Metal fell the most among the sectoral indices by 1.94%. This was followed by Nifty Oil & gas which was down 1.93%, and Nifty PSU Bank and Nifty Midsmall IT & Telecom, which was both down 1.29%.

Budget 2025 Stock Market Impact LIVE: The BSE Sensex fell by 452 points and Nifty went down by 150 points as the market continues to fluctuate after the Union Budget 2025 presentation by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

One of the biggest highlights of the Budget was the announcement of no income tax on income upto 12 lakh, which led to a quick surge and then fall in the markets.