Top 5 stocks of the day: The major gainers are HCL Technologies, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Tata Consumer, ONGC and HUL on the Nifty, while Adani Ports, Hero MotoCorp, BPCL, HDFC Life, and M&M are among the top losers. All sectoral indices finished in the red, with power, oil and gas, auto PSU Bank, metal, realty and capital goods all falling 1-3 percent.
Sensex and NSE Nifty50
The Sensex was down 483.24 points at 65,512.39 at the closing, while the Nifty was down 141.20 points, or 0.72 percent, at 19,512.30. Approximately 970 shares rose, 2699 fell, and 129 were unchanged. Benchmark indices closed lower on October 9, with the Nifty hovering around 19,500 due to selling across sectors. Broader indexes lagged behind the main indices, with the BSE Midcap index falling 1.2 percent and the Smallcap index falling 1.7 percent.
Top 5 stocks of the day
Name of companies
Change
Volume
Dr Reddy's Laboratories
1.13
4,73,622
HCL Technologies
0.94
34,30,211
Tata Consumer
0.56
12,00,788
ONGC
0.41
1,46,22,727
Hind Unilever
0.34
14,68,771
Ambuja Cements Ltd declined 1.5 percent following a massive block deal. According to Bloomberg, approximately 1.3 million shares of the corporation changed hands in a series of exchanges. However, the identities of the purchasers and sellers were unknown.
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