Indian equity indices concluded the day in deep red. The Sensex closed below 61,800 while the Nifty settled below 18,420. Meanwhile, Bank Nifty after touching a new high in the previous session, fell 1.25% today. The top gainers of the Nifty 100 were GODREJCP (up 1.79%), Gail (up 1.15%), Britannia (up 1.14%), Hero Motocorp (up 0.79%) and ATGL (up 0.63%) while IRCTC (down 6.50%), Ambuja Cement (down 3.98%), Tech Mahindra (down 3.81%), Bank of Baroda (down 3.81%) and HAL (down 3.10%) were the top laggards.
Indian stock market
The BSE Sensex fell 878.88 points or 1.40%, settling at 61,799.03 while the NSE Nifty 50 dipped 245.40 points or 1.32% to 18,414.90. In the sectoral indices, Nifty IT dropped 2.11% and Nifty FMCG fell 0.88%.
European Markets
England’s FTSE100 was trading at 7,461.73, down 34.40 points or 0.46% at 4:30 PM (IST). Europe’s Euronext100 was down 14.16 points or 1.10% at 1,271.82. France’s CAC was trading 77.12 points or 1.15% lower at 6,653.67. Germany’s DAX was down 163.03 points or 1.03% at 14,297.18.
US Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 142.29 points or 0.42% at 33,966.35. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 85.93 points or 0.76% at 11,170.89 and the S&P 500 dipped 24.33 points or 0.61% to end at 3,995.32.
Rupee movement
The Indian rupee depreciated 0.37% or 0.3038 at 82.7625 against the US dollar at 4:30 PM (IST).
Gold, Silver
Gold futures on the multi-commodity exchange were trading at 54069.00 down 605 points or 0.11% while Silver futures were up 1545 points or 2.23% at 67757.00 at 4:40 PM (IST).
Crude oil
WTI Crude futures were up 0.12% at $77.37 while Brent Crude futures were trading 0.22% higher at $82.88 at 4:40 PM (IST).
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin (BTC) at 3:50 PM (IST) was trading at Rs $17,680.95, down by 0.82% in the last 24 hours. Its total market cap is Rs $340,112,456,232. Ethereum (ETH) is trading at Rs $1,287.55, down by 2.87% in the last 24 hours. It has a total market cap of Rs $157,571,182,718.