Live Stock Market Updates: Sensex Drops 150+ Points, Nifty Slips Below 23,650; Midcaps Lead Gains

The Sensex fell three39 points or 0.43 percent to 77,677 and the Nifty fell by 73 points or 0.31 percent to 23,594. Market breadth was down, since around 1,142 shares increased while 2,275 shares fell and 115 shares were unchanged.

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Kotak analysts have added Dr. Lal PathLabs as a recommended portfolio as well as weightings decreased to Indigo Aviation, and Zomato

Hindalco, Dr Reddy Labs Hindalco, Dr Reddy Labs along with Adani Ports were the top gainers on NSE.

23 of the 30 stocks are Green on BSE Sensex, with Maruti, M&M and L&T as the top gainers.

Nifty50's close is above the 23,700 mark. The Nifty50 index closed at 23,742 levels with a gain of by 98 points or 0.41 per cent.

Sensex is closing over 350 points higher The BSE Sensex ended the day with 368 points which is 0.47 percent higher at 78,507 levels.

Stocks from Suzlon Energy, Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra), GMR Power & Urban Infra, Sequent Scientific and Reliance Power were among a total of 317 shares locked in each of the upper circuits of the BSE in the intra-day trade on Wednesday.

64 Moons Technologies, Shilchar Technologies, Mercury Ev-Tech, Axiscades Technologies, JSW Holdings, Indo Tech Transformers, Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services Motisons Jewellers, Sunflag Iron & Steel Company, EPACK Durable and Coffee Day Enterprises from the BSE Smallcap index were locked at 5 percent upper circuit, as the exchange data reveals.

Indian benchmark equity indexes BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50 were trading higher on Wednesday in spite of the lack of global signals.

At 3 p.m at 3 PM, it was 3:00 PM. BSE Sensex was higher by 357.47 points or 0.46 percent, and was at 78,496.48 and the Nifty50 stood at 23,742.30 up by 97.50 points or 0.41 percent.