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Market Extends Gains
The Statesman Kolkata
|March 19, 2025
The stock market on Tuesday extended the gains on the second consecutive session with Nifty surpassing 22,850 intraday led by buying across the sectors and broader indices.
At close, Sensex was up 1,131.31 points or 1.53 per cent at 75,301.26, and the Nifty was up 325.55 points or 1.45 per cent at 22,834.30.
Throughout the day, Nifty reached a peak of 22857.8 and a low of 22599.2 while Sensex fluctuated between 75385.76 and 74480.15.
BSE Midcap index ended 2.10 per cent higher, while the Smallcap index surged 2.73 per cent. The overall market capitalisation of BSE-listed firms rose to nearly 400 lakh crore from 393 lakh crore in the previous session.
On BSE, over 290 stocks touched 52-week-low including Happiest Minds, AU Small Finance Bank, Balaji Amines, Mahindra Life, EKI Energy, Gensol Engineering, Sadhana Nitrochem, NIBE, Sirca Paints, Veritas, GVK Power, Everest Industries, Andrew Yule, SIS, among others.
This story is from the March 19, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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