INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Bank index was the top sectoral loser on the BSE, shedding over 2 per cent.The benchmark indices have slipped more than a per cent in
the afternoon session to trade near the lows of the day, as fears surrounding the mounting Covid cases came back to haunt the market
participants after a four-day rally
At 1:45 pm, the BSE Sensex was trading at 49,064.45, lower by 700.05 points or 1.33 per cent and the NSE Nifty was at 14,715.25, down 163.45
The Bank index was the top sectoral loser on the BSE, shedding over 2 per cent.The BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap indices however continued to
Friday, while deaths from COVID-19 jumped by 3,498 over the last 24 hours, according to health ministry data.On the stock-specific front,
the HDFC twins HDFC and HDFC Bank had dived by nearly 4 per cent on the BSE, while ICICI Bank, SBI and Kotak Mahindra Bank shed around 2 per
Hindustan Unilever, Tata Motors and Hindalco were the other significant losers among the BSE stocks.On the other hand, ONGC, Divi's Lab,
Coal India and Grasim bucked the weak trend, registering gains of 1-4 per cent each on the BSE
