Stock market highlights: Equity markets were range-bound on the penultimate day of the monthly F&O expiry with metals, IT, and select auto stocks holding the fort for the benchmark indices for better part of the day. Fag-end selling in banking stocks, however, trimmed gains.
The S&P BSE Sensex settled at 65,087 levels on Wednesday, up only 11 points or 0.02 per cent, after oscillating between 65,053 and 65,459 during the day.
The Nifty50, on the other hand, closed below the 19,350-mark at 19,347, up 5 points. The index was supported by Tata Steel, Maruti Suzuki, M&M, Infosys, HCL Tech, Tata Consumer Products, LTI Mindtree, ITC, and JSW Steel.
On the flipside, SBI, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Bajaj Finance, IndusInd Bank, NTPC, Kotak Bank, and Bajaj Finserv fell up to 1.4 per cent.
In the broader markets, the BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices continued to outshine their large-cap peers with up to 0.8 per cent gains.
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