Share Market HIGHLIGHTS: Domestic equity benchmarks Nifty 50 and Sensex finished a session characterised by wild swings sharply lower on Wednesday, December 20, as a fag-end sell-off across sectors dragged the indices off all-time highs registered within the first few minutes of intraday trade. The Sensex shed 930.9 points, or 1.3 per cent, to end at
70,506.3 and the Nifty50 called it a day at 21,150.2, down 303 points, or 1.4 per cent, from its previous close—the 50-scrip index’s worst single-day fall since mid-March.
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The Sensex ends 930.9 points, or 1.3 per cent, lower at 70,506.3 and the Nifty50 settles at 21,150.2, down 303 points, or 1.4 per cent, from its previous close.
The Nifty PSU Bank—whose 12 constituents include SBI, Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank and Canara Bank—drops as much as 239 points, or 4.1 per cent, to 5,526.8, its worst single-day fall since February 1, 2023.
The PSU banking index is down 3.8 per cent at 5,548.9 as the market enters the final 20 minutes of trade. Here’s how the headline indices have fared so far today:
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The Sensex nosedives as much as 1,360.3 points from an all-time high of 71,913.1 registered earlier in the day to hit 70,552.8 on the downside. The Nifty50 slumps to as low as 21,161.9, having scaled a record high of 21,593 within the first few minutes of intraday trade.
HDFC Bank is the lone gainer in the 30-scrip basket, holding on to the green up 0.5 per cent for the day.
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On the flipside, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Alok Industries, Punjab & Sind Bank and NBCC are the top laggards in the broadest index on the bourse.
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Salasar Techno on Wednesday announces the issue of bonus shares in the proportion of 4:1 i.e. four new fully paid-up bonus equity share of face value of Rs l each will be provided for one existing fully paid up equity share of Rs 1 each held by the shareholder. Read more
In this edition of Traders’ Diary, Zee Business shares exclusive research on more than a dozen stocks that investors and traders can track on Wednesday, December 20. Here’s a list of 20 stocks that are on analysts Ashish Chaturvedi and Kushal Gupta’s radar.
Here’s the complete list of investment and trading ideas for the day:
Ashish Chaturvedi
Source: NSE
RVNL shares trade in positive territory on Wednesday after one of its joint venture firm emerged as the lowest L1 bidder for the redevelopment of Varkala Sivagiri Railway Station, Kerala. The stock of Rail Vikas Nigam Limited is trading up by 0.92 per cent, or Rs 1.70, at Rs 185.50. Read more
Shares of India Shelter Finance make a strong debut on the bourses today as the affordable housing finance company lists at Rs 612.70, a premium of 24.28 per cent, over its issue price of Rs 493 on the BSE. Meanwhile, Zee Business Managing Editor Anil Singhvi on Wednesday says that investors should keep a stoploss of Rs 600. Read more
Doms Industries makes a strong debut on bourses today as shares list at Rs 1,400 on NSE and BSE both against the issue price of Rs 790. Read more
Shares of Varun Beverages on Wednesday zoom as much as 18 per cent to the day’s high of Rs 1,380.45 apiece on the BSE. The buying interest in the stock is triggered after the company’s foray into the African market with the acquisition of the Beverage Company was cheered by brokerages.
Global brokerage CLSA has upgraded the stock to ‘Buy’ from the earlier ‘Outperform’ call with a higher target of Rs 1,419 as against the previous Rs 1,070. Read more
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Share Market HIGHLIGHTS: Big U-turn on D-Street! Sensex ends 931 pts lower, Nifty sheds 303 pts to 2 – Zee Business
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