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Sensex tanks 188 points
The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex today tanked 188 points as traders exited open positions on the last day of the July F&O (futures and options) series and sustained selling in realty and capital goods stocks.
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex on Thursday tanked 188 points as traders exited open positions on the last day of the July F&O (futures and options) series and sustained selling in realty and capital goods stocks.
The 30-scrip sensitive index of the BSE, which opened at 16,887.84 points, closed 16,657.42 points (provisional), 1.12% or 188.63 points down from its previous day's close at 16,846.05 points.
The BSE realty index was down 58.37 points, followed by capital goods index, down 196.52 points.
The wider 50-scrip S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange closed 1.23% down at 5,046.90 points.
The main losers were Tata Motors, down 2.98% at Rs.206.60; Tata Power, down 2.70% at Rs. 93.65; SBI, down 2.52% at Rs. 2,018.55; Infosys, down 2.21% at Rs. 2,120; and Wipro, down 2.21% at Rs. 331.50.
The major Sensex gainers were NTPC, up 1.60% at Rs. 152.40; Bajaj Auto, up 0.85% at Rs. 1,575; Sun Pharma, up 0.84% at Rs. 614.95; Gail India, up 0.77% at Rs. 346.70; and Dr Reddy's Lab, up 0.30% at Rs. 1,619.20.
