Stock Market Close: Sensex slips 345 pts; Nifty at 25,795; FMCG, bank stocks fall

Sensex Today | Stock Market Close Highlights, Oct 24: Among the broader markets, the Nifty Midcap 100 was closed lower by 0.24 per cent, and the Nifty Smallcap 100 index was down 0.21 per cent

3:48 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Fundamental View

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Equity markets ended the week on a subdued note after Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal’s remarks that India will not rush into trade agreements with restrictive conditions dampened hopes of an early India–U.S. trade deal, leading to profit-booking across sectors following a strong rally earlier in the week.

--View by Ponmudi R, chief executive officer at Enrich Money

3:47 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Technical View

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The Nifty remained weak during the session as traders continued to book profits. On the lower end, it slipped below the initial support of 25,850, leading to a decline towards 25,700. The next 1–2 sessions might remain volatile; however, a sustained rally looks possible thereafter. On the higher end, resistance is placed at 25,850, above which a rally towards 26,000–26,200 looks possible.

--View by Rupak De, senior technical analyst at LKP Securities

3:40 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Here's a look at Sensex gainers and losers at close

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Hindustan Unilever, Ultratech Cement, Adani Ports, Titan, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Axis Bank were the top laggards on Sensex. ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, Bharat Electronics, Sun Pharma, and ITC were among top gainers.

3:38 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sector check

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Among the sectoral indices, Nifty Metal was the top gainer, up by 1.03 per cent, followed by Nifty Energy, Realty and Oil & Gas. On the contrary, Nifty Auto, Bank, IT, Media, Financial Services, FMCG, Pharma, and Consumer Durables, settled in red.

3:35 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: A glance at broader market

Stock Market LIVE Updates: In the broader markets, NSE Nifty Midcap 100 fell 0.24 per cent, and the Nifty Smallcap 100 index was down 0.21 per cent.

3:34 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex closes at 84,211.88, down 344 pts

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex closed at 84,211.88, up 344.52 points or 0.41 per cent. 

3:33 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty closes at 25,795.15, down 96 pts

Stock Market LIVE Updates: NSE Nifty50 settled at 25,795.15, down 96.25 points or 0.37 per cent.

3:19 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Motilal Oswal Financial soars 17% in October, hits record high

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of Motilal Oswal Financial Services (MOFSL) hit a record high of ₹1,044.40, gaining 2 per cent on the BSE after the company informed the stock exchanges that the meeting of the board of directors is scheduled on October 30, 2025, inter alia, to consider and approve unaudited financial results (standalone & consolidated) of the company for the quarter and half year ended September 30, 2025. READ MORE

3:13 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Infosys, CRISIL, 11 other stocks to go ex-date next week

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Investors on Dalal Street looking to pocket additional gains from their holdings can keep an eye on Infosys, Central Bank of India, CRISIL, REC, L&T Technology Services, 360 ONE WAM, and seven other companies next week, as these firms have announced interim dividend rewards for their shareholders. READ MORE

2:57 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Investors book profit in ITC Hotels shares after Q2 results

Stock Market LIVE Updates: ITC Hotels share price slipped in the negative zone on Friday after the company announced its Q2 results.

ITC Hotesl shares fell around 0.5 per cent after Q2 results were declared.

ITC Hotels said its net profit jumped 74% Y-o-Y to ₹133 crore from ₹77 crore in Q2FY25.

The ITC-arm's revenue rose 8% Y-o-Y to ₹839.5 crore with Ebitda up 15.7% to ₹245.7 crore. 

ITC Hotels' Ebitda margin expanded to 29.3% from 27.3% Y-o-Y

2:51 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Midcap funds beat the rest with 17% returns for 10 yrs

Stock Market LIVE Updates: According to the fund house’s latest SIP Analysis Report, midcap funds have emerged as one of the best long-term performers among equity segments for Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs), delivering an average 10-year rolling return of 17.4%. The median return stood at 17.9%, with 100% of SIP periods generating positive returns over nearly three decades of market data. READ MORE

2:42 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: IPO Calendar shows quiet week ahead with 3 new issues

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The upcoming week will see muted action in the IPO market with only three new offers going LIVE. 

Among them is the Orkla India IPO which will be brought by the parent company of packaged foods manufacturer MTR Foods.

Orkla India IPO will open on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 and close for bidding on Friday, October 31, 2025. It is an entire offer for sale (OFS) of 22.8 million equity shares aggregating to ₹1,667.54 crore. READ MORE

2:32 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Voda Idea regains ₹1 trn mcap

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of Vodafone Idea (Vi) hit a 10-month high of ₹9.62, gaining 1 per cent on the BSE in Friday’s intra-day trade in an otherwise weak market. Currently, Vi quotes at its highest level since February 2025. READ MORE

2:25 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: India's financial sector sees $8 billion in deals

Stock Market LIVE Updates: India's financial sector has seen a number of large deals in 2025, including two rare transactions involving foreign banks buying significant stakes in Indian lenders. Between January and September 2025, mergers and acquisitions worth $8 billion have concluded across the financial sector, a 127 per cent increase over the same period last year. READ MORE

2:13 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Oil disruption widens as China halts some Russia buys after US sanctions

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Chinese state-owned companies including SinOpec canceled some purchases of seaborne Russian crude after the US blacklisted Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC, adding to signs of disruption in the oil market. READ MORE

2:03 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: 2 PM market update

Stock Market LIVE Updates: At 2 PM, Sensex was at 84,046.99, down 511.15 points or 0.61 per cent and Nifty50 was at 25,735.85, down 154.15  points or 0.59 per cent.

1:44 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: L&T bags Hindalco aluminium smelter and Tata Steel coke oven orders

Stock Market LIVE Updates:  Infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Friday said it has bagged an order from Hindalco to set up an aluminium smelter for its upcoming project in Odisha and another project from Tata Steel to build a coke oven battery. READ MORE

1:35 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty, Sensex eye fourth straight week of gains; best since July 2024

Stock Market LIVE Updates:  The benchmark indices, Nifty and Sensex, are trading higher on a weekly basis, marking four straight weeks of gains for investors amid a comeback by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs). If the indices close on a higher note, this will be the best weekly streak since July 2024. In the weekly charts, the Nifty is up 0.22 per cent. 

1:30 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Is Carysil your next growth stock?

Stock Market LIVE Updates:  Domestic brokerage Anand Rathi Research has initiated coverage on Carysil stock, a quartz kitchen sink manufacturer, with a ‘Buy’ rating. Having adopted Schock technology from Germany, Carysil is the only manufacturer of quartz sinks in Asia. READ MORE

1:19 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Aptus Value Housing shares rise 3% on reclassification update

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Aptus Value Housing Finance India share price: Shares of housing finance company Aptus Value Housing Finance India were ruling higher on the bourses in an otherwise weak market on Friday, October 24. So far during today’s trading session, a combined total of 0.53 million equity shares of the company, worth ₹16.77 crore, exchanged hands on the BSE and NSE. READ MORE

1:09 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shipping Corporation surges 16% in 2 days

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) hit a 52-week high of ₹267.70, surging 7 per cent on the BSE in Friday’s intra-day trade amid heavy volumes. In the past two trading days, the stock price of the state-owned shipping company has zoomed 16 per cent. READ MORE

1:01 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: 1 PM Update

Stock Market LIVE Updates: At 1 PM, Sensex was at 84,273, down 283.37 points or 0.34 per cent and Nifty50 was at 25,809.8, down 81.6 points or 0.32 per cent. 

12:50 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Tata Motors PV slips after S&P Global revises outlook to 'Negative'

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles shares slipped by 0.4 per cent, logging an intra-day low at ₹404 per share on BSE after credit agency S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook to 'Negative' owing to slow recovery at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

 

At 12:02 PM, Tata Motors PV's share price was down 0.25 per cent on BSE at ₹404.85 per share. In comparison, the BSE Sensex was down 0.27 per cent at 84,327.39. READ MORE 

12:40 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Silver to trade between $47.80 and $50.50 in near-term, says analyst

Stock Market LIVE Updates: On October 21, spot silver slumped from its intra-day high of $52.62 to $47.89, a decline of 9 per cent, its biggest decline since 2021. The metal extended its decline to the second straight day on October 22; however, it recovered some of its losses on October 23.

 

At the time of writing this article, the metal was changing hands at $49.02, up over 1 per cent for the day, while the MCX December contract at ₹1,48,601, was up 2.05 per cent. READ MORE 

12:28 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Long-term outlook remain intact for gold; analyst calls for higher prices

Stock Market LIVE Updates: On October 21, spot gold fell from $4,375 all the way to $4,082, a decline of 6.69 per cent which happens to be the sharpest intra-day fall since 2013 and the 7th steepest decline since 2000.

 

The yellow metal tumbled as it failed to take out the resistance at all-time high level of $4,381.52 (October 20) due to softer demand post-Diwali and caution ahead of the release of the US CPI data (due on October 24) and two crucial meetings - Trump-Xi and Trump-Putin. Easing bad loan worries concerning US regional banks also weighed on the metal. READ MORE 

12:19 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Motilal Oswal Financial soars 17% in October, hits record high

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Motilal Oswal Financial Services (MOFSL) shares hit a record high of ₹1,044.40, gaining 2 per cent on the BSE in Friday’s intra-day trade in an otherwise subdued market. Thus far in the month of October, the stock has rallied 17 per cent.

 

The market price of the stock broking and allied services company surpassed its previous high of ₹1,034.95 touched on December 11, 2024. In comparison, the BSE Sensex was down 0.3 per cent at 84,303.58 at 11:27 AM. READ MORE 

12:10 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Crude oil to see short-term bullish momentum; check strategy

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Global crude oil prices rebounded sharply this week, with WTI up 8 per cent , (but still holding down by 15 per cent through the year) following fresh US sanctions on Russian energy giants Rosneft and Lukoil, building on Britain’s sanctions last week. READ MORE 

12:00 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: 12 PM Update

Stock Market LIVE Updates: At 12 PM, Sensex was at 84,354.58, down 201.82 points or 0.24 per cent and Nifty quoted 25,823.9, down 67.5 points or 0.26 per cent. 

11:50 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sagar Cements falls 4% after Q2 results; weak QoQ numbers weigh on stock

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sagar Cements shares fell nearly 4 per cent to hit an intraday low of ₹232.9 on the NSE after the company reported weak performance in the September 2025 quarter (Q2FY26). 

 

At 11:35 AM, the Sagar Cements stock was trading at ₹233.2, down 3.2 per cent compared to the previous session's close of ₹242.2 on the NSE. In comparison, the benchmark NSE Nifty50 was trading 81.3 points lower at 25,817 levels. The company's total market capitalisation stood at ₹3,084 crore. The stock's 52-week high stood at ₹299.4 and 52-week low stood at ₹168. READ MORE 

11:39 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: How will TVS Motor fare in Q2?

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Brokerages expect a strong performance from two wheeler giant TVS Motor Company in the September quarter (Q2FY26), driven by robust volume growth, an improved product mix, and favorable market dynamics. READ MORE