At the opening bell on Dalal Street today, the Sensex was nearly 300 points lower than last Friday. Last Friday, when Sensex stood at 80 thousand 981.95 points at the end of trading in the stock market, today Sensex was at 78 thousand 588 points at the opening bell. Later, however, the stock market turned around and reached the threshold of 80,000. However, 13 lakh crores of investors lost their money in the initial shock.
Today, the Nifty fell by almost 500 points at the opening. The Nifty 50 fell below 24,200 today before trading started in the stock market. At the closing bell last Friday, where Nifty stood at 24 thousand 717 points, today Nifty fell to 24 thousand 192.5 points at one time. Later, the Nifty turned around again and crossed the 24,300 mark.
The top losers today were Archaean Chemical (9.56 percent), Phoenix Mills Ltd (8.53 percent), Samvardhana Motherson (7.13 percent), Kalyan Jewelers (6.75 percent), LIC Housing Finance (6.53 percent), and Titagarh Rail System (4.87 percent).