Indian equity markets fell sharply on Thursday, May 9, amid a widespread selling in index heavyweights, coupled with FII selling, and rising US bond yields.
Index heavyweights including Reliance Industries, L&T, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and ITC saw broad-based selling due to political uncertainty.
At 14:45 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 72567.6 down by -898.79 points or by -1.22 % and then NSE Nifty was at 22011.85 down by -290.65 points or by -1.3 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 73499.49 and intraday low of 72459.97 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 22307.75 and intraday low of 22004.4
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were State Bank of India (Rs. 825.25,+1.83%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 1028.30,+1.59%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 2212.70,+1.40%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1328.25,+1.12%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1441.35,+0.98%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (Rs. 3282.00,-5.83%), Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2719.95,-4.37%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 425.45,-3.50%), JSW Steel Ltd. (Rs. 837.70,-3.14%), IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1403.20,-2.81%), among others.
Auto index was at 51504.03 up by 363.77 points or by 0.71%. Hero MotoCorp Ltd. (Rs. 4789.55,+3.57%), TVS Motor Company Ltd. (Rs. 2072.45,+3.30%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 1029.90,+1.75%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 2215.95,+1.55%), Bajaj Auto Ltd. (Rs. 8853.55,+1.18%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4120 , shares advanced were 1005 while 2948 shares declined and 167 were unchanged.