Indian equity indices ended Friday’s session in the red. The Sensex closed below 59,850 while the Nifty settled below 17,850. There were no gainers on the BSE Sensex. Tata Steel (down 4.97%), Tata Motors (down 4.07%), State Bank of India (down 3.27%) Bajaj Finserv (down 3.07%), and Reliance (down 2.96%) were the top laggards.
Indian stock market
The BSE Sensex fell 980.93 points or 1.61%, settling at 59,845.29 while the NSE Nifty 50 dipped 320.55 points or 1.77% to 17,806.80. In the sectoral indices, Nifty Bank fell 1.75% and Nifty IT dropped 1.83%.
European Markets
England’s FTSE100 was trading at 7,488.42, up 19.10 points or 0.26% at 3:55 PM (IST). Europe’s Euronext100 was up 1.51 points or 0.12% at 1,245.32. France’s CAC was trading 6.73 points or 0.10% higher at 6,524.70. Germany’s DAX was up 51.79 points or 0.39% at 13,965.86.
US Markets
The US markets concluded the overnight session in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 348.99 points or 1.05% at 33,027.49. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 233.25 points or 2.18% at 10,476.12 and the S&P 500 dipped 56.05 points or 1.45% to end at 3,822.39.
Rupee movement
The Indian rupee depreciated 0.12% at 82.8650 against the US dollar at 4:00 PM (IST).
Gold, Silver
Gold futures on the multi-commodity exchange for February delivery were trading at 54659.00 down 138 points or 0.25% while Silver futures for March delivery were down 617 points or 0.90% at 69137.00 at 4:15 PM (IST).
Crude oil
WTI Crude futures for January delivery were up 2.21% at $79.20 while Brent Crude futures for February delivery were trading 2.04% higher at $82.63 at 4:15 PM (IST).
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin (BTC) at 4:15 PM (IST) was trading at $16,862.18, up by 0.19% in the last 24 hours. Its total market cap is $324,451,732,567. Ethereum (ETH) is trading at $1,223.27, up by 0.43% in the last 24 hours. It has a total market cap of $149,709,258,810.