Sensex Today: Benchmark indice ended lower on Thursday, the day of weekly F&O expiry, amid fag-end selling. The S&P BSE Sensex closed the session at 64,832, down 143 points or 0.22 per cent, while the Nifty50 shut shop at 19,395, lower by 48 points or 0.25 per cent.
The losses were led by profit booking in Adani Enterprises (down 1.7 per cent), HUL, Adani Ports, Tech M, Tata Consumer Products, Infosys, ONGC, Bajaj Finance, TCS, Reliance Industries, UPL, Titan Company, and JSW Steel (down 0.8 per cent).
On the upside, M&M, Apollo Hospitals, Coal India, Hero MotoCorp, IndusInd Bank, Power Grid, Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki, and L&T tried to trim losses by rising between 0.9 per cent and 4.2 per cent.
In the broader markets, the BSE MidCap index added 0.06 per cent, but the BSE SmallCap index slipped 0.27 per cent.
Among sectors, the Nifty Realty index gained over 1 per cent, followed by the Nifty Auto index (up 0.8 per cent). The Nifty Oil & Gas, FMCG, and IT indices, meanwhile, dropped up to 1 per cent.
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