Stock Market Close Highlights, Tuesday, October 8: Indian stock markets returned to their winning ways on Tuesday, snapping their 5-day losing run. The BSE Sensex today gained 584.81 points, or 0.72 per cent, to end at 81,634.8 levels. The Nifty50, too, shut shop at 25,013.15, up 217.38 points or 0.88 per cent as investors digested the Assembly elections results, and dazzling rally in China stocks moderated. 

Investors were also waiting for the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) monetary policy decision on Wednesday. 

Among individual stocks, Adani Ports, M&M, Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, L&T, SBI, Ultratech Cement, NTPC, and Kotak Bank were the top Sensex gainers today, up between 1 per cent and 4.5 per cent. 

Tata Steel, Titan Company, Bajaj Finserv, JSW Steel, Bajaj Finance, Tata Motors, and ITC, on the other hands, were the top Sensex losers today, down up to 2.7 per cent.

In the broader markets, the BSE MidCap index rose 1.86 per cent, and the BSE SmallCap index 2.44 per cent. The broader indices outperformed the benchmark indices today.

Meanwhile, among sectors, all the indices, barring the Nifty Metal index, rallied in trade today. The Nifty Media index jumped over 3 per cent, the Nifty Auto 1.84 per cent, and the Nifty Pharma 1.5 per cent.