Stock market remained sluggish on the first day of the year, Sensex closed in the red; Nifty also declined

Share Market Highlights: The Indian stock market closed almost flat on Thursday, the first day of the new year. However, buying was seen in auto, realty and metal stocks during this period. At the end of trading, Sensex closed at 85,188.60 with a slight weakness of 32 points and Nifty closed at 26,146.55 with a slight gain of 16.95 points. Auto, realty and metal stocks did the work of pulling the market up. Nifty Auto closed with a rise of 1.03 percent, Nifty Realty 0.84 percent and Nifty Metal 0.79 percent.

Apart from this, IT, Commodities, Infra, Energy, PSE and PSU Bank indices also closed in the green. Second Nifty FMCG closed down by 3.17 percent, Nifty Consumption by 0.43 percent, Nifty Pharma by 0.40 percent and Nifty India Defense by 0.26 percent.

Today’s Top Gainers and Losers

NTPC, Eternal (Zomato), M&M, L&T, Power Grid, Tata Steel, Tech Mahindra, Indigo, UltraTech Cement, Infosys, Adani Ports, HCL Tech, TCS, Kotak Mahindra, Sun Pharma, Trent and HUL were the gainers in the Sensex pack. ITC, Bajaj Finance, Asian Paints, BEL, ICICI Bank, Titan and Bajaj Finserv were the losers.

The performance of midcaps and smallcaps was mixed along with largecaps. The Nifty Midcap 100 index closed at 60,750.45 with a rise of 265.95 points or 0.44 per cent and the Nifty Smallcap 100 index closed marginally lower by 9 points at 17,704.90.

Cautious start to first session

Akash Shah, research analyst at Choice Broking, said the Indian stock market has started its first session on a cautious note. Consolidation was seen at upper levels in the indices during the day. If Nifty remains in the range of 26,100 to 26,050 in the coming time, then it can go up to 26,300 in the coming time. The new year 2026 was started by the Indian stock market with a green mark. During this period, major benchmarks of the domestic market, NSE Nifty and BSE Sensex, saw gains.

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The signs on the first trading day of the year appeared positive. Gift Nifty was seen trading around 26,350 with a gain of about 50 points. Due to the American markets being closed on the occasion of New Year, global triggers are a bit less, today most of the markets around the world are also closed. Whereas, in the last trading session of the year US markets There was weakness in me. US markets closed at the day’s lows, falling for the fourth consecutive day, with the Dow Jones falling nearly 300 points, while the Nasdaq fell nearly 180 points.