RIL, HUL, Airtel help indices log V-shaped recovery
Published On: Friday, June 18, 2021 | By: Team KnowMyStock
In today's(18th June 2021) intra-day session Indian benchmark equity indices slumped over 1 percent but made a sharp V-shaped recovery to end the day with little change. Financials and metals exerted pressure on the bourses, even as gains in Reliance Industries, FMCG, and select private bank stocks tried to limit the losses. The S&P BSE Sensex fell 722 points intra-day but recovered to close 21 points, or 0.04 percent, higher at 52,344 levels. The broader Nifty50 index, meanwhile, bounced back from the day's low of 15,451 to end at 15,683 levels, down 8 points or 0.05 percent. The correction was deeper in the broader markets where the BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices closed 0.70 percent and 0.89 percent down, respectively.
Overall, the market breadth was heavily skewed towards bears with the Advance to Decline ratio standing at 1:2. ONGC, Coal India, Power Grid, JSW Steel, UPL, NTPC, M&M, SBI, and Nestle India were the top laggards among the large-cap stocks while Mahanagar Gas, Ashok Leyland, SAIL, Canara Bank, Max Financial Services, Graphite India, HEG, Hindustan Copper, Affle India, and Wockhardt Pharma cracked in the mid-and small-cap segments.
Sectorally, the Nifty PSU Bank declined nearly 2 percent while the Nifty Auto, Metal, and Realty indices slipped up to 1 percent each. On the upside, the Nifty FMCG index ended 0.29 percent higher.
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