Market on Tuesday: Sensex, Nifty closed with slight decline on the day of monthly F&O expiry.
In another volatile session on December 30 (Nifty F&O expiry day), equity indices closed marginally lower. Investors remained cautious due to FII selling ahead of the release of the Fed’s December minutes report and low year-end volumes.
At the end of the trading session, Sensex fell 20.46 points or 0.02 percent to 84,675.08 and Nifty fell 3.25 points or 0.01 percent to 25,938.85. BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices also closed with slight losses.
Shriram Finance, Tata Steel, Hindalco Industries, M&M, Bajaj Auto were the major gainers on Nifty. While losers included Max Healthcare, Eternal, Apollo Hospitals, InterGlobe Aviation, Tata Consumer.
On the sectoral front, auto index rose 1 per cent, metal index rose 2 per cent, PSU bank gained around 2 per cent, however, IT, realty, consumer durables, healthcare, defense declined 0.5-1%.
Among sectors, except Media, all the indices closed with losses including Auto, IT, Pharma, Realty, Power falling 0.4-0.9 per cent.