New Delhi, Dec 3 (UNI) The Indian stock market today fell from their all-time highs hit in trade earlier this week, with both the BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty declining by 30 and 46 points, respectively.
At close, the Sensex shed by 31.46 points or 0.04 percent to 85,106.81, and the Nifty edged lower by 46.20 points or 0.18 pc to 25,986.00. The BSE Midcap index shed 1 pc and Smallcap index dipped 0.4 pc.
The broader market selloff was sharper as the BSE Midcap index lost 0.95 pc and the BSE Smallcap index shed 0.43 pc. The overall market capitalisation of BSE-listed stocks fell by Rs 2.76 lakh crore to Rs 469.69 lakh crore.
Among the sectors, IT was the best performer rising 0.76 pc. Nifty Auto emerged as the worst loser with 1.20 pc decline. IT, media, private bank, Telecom rose 0.2-0.6 pc, while PSU Bank shed 3 pc, and oil & gas, metal, power, PSU, capital goods, consumer durables down 0.5-1.5 pc.
The advance-decline ratio favoured sellers as it stood at 1:2. On NSE today, 1052 stocks advanced, and 2074 stocks declined.
Over 80 stocks hit 52-week high while 280 stocks hit 52-week low.
Those hitting highs included Asian Paints, Vedanta, eClerx Services, Can Fin Homes, Jamna Auto, Cupid, Jindal Poly, Hitachi Energy, among others.
On the other hand, those hitting lows were KNR Construction, Colgate Palmolive, Power Finance, SJVN, CG Consumer, NCC, Page Industries, Chambal Fertiliers, Trent, Mahanagar Gas, Praj Industries, BASF, Clean Science, Deepak Nitrite, Cohance Life, Bata India, PCBL Chemical, among others.
PSU banks closed with sharp losses. Indian Bank fell 5.4 pc to Rs 812.8 apiece while Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and union Bank of India also slipped between 3 pc and 4.5 pc.
On Nifty, the major gainers were Wipro, Hindalco Industries, TCS, Axis Bank and ICICI Bank.
Those among the losers were Max Healthcare, Shriram Finance, Bharat Electronics, Interglobe Aviation, Tata Consumer.
The rupee plunged to a historic low passing 90-per-dollar amid foreign fund outflows, firm crude oil prices and uncertainty around the India–US trade deal also added to the woes.
In 2025, Indian Rupee remained one of the poorest-performing Asian currencies falling about 4–5 pc so far.
