Stock Market Highlight, Aug 28: Sensex ends flat, Nifty shields 25k after scaling new high; IT leads

Stock Market Highlights on Aug 28, 2024: As many as 29 out of 50 listed stocks of Nifty50 ended in the red, dragged by Adani Enterprises, Asian Paints, and Maruti Suzuki India

8:23 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Oil prices climb

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Oil rebounded on Wednesday after a sharp drop in the previous session ended a three-day streak of gains as investors have whipsawed between concerns about potential supply losses from Libya and the Middle East and worries about global fuel demand.

Brent crude futures were up 0.31 per cent, at $79.80 a barrel at 7:39 AM. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose 0.23 per cent, to trade at $75.70.

 

8:17 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Asia-Pacific markets drag

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Asia-Pacific markets fell on Wednesday, as investors assessed Australia’s July inflation numbers, which came in higher than expected.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was 0.7 per cent down after the country's CPI release. Japan’s Nikkei 225 was 0.14 per cent lower, while the broad-based Topix fell marginally.

South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.51 per cent, but the small-cap Kosdaq saw a smaller loss of 0.08 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index and the mainland Chinese CSI 300 lost 0.11 per cent and 0.03 per cent, respectively.

 

8:10 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Wall Street ends marginally higher

Stock Market LIVE Updates: In the US, Wall Street's main indexes ended higher in choppy trading on Tuesday

 

The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.02 per cent to 41,250.50, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.16 per cent to 17,754.82, and the S&P 500 gained 0.16 per cent to 5,625.80.

 

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