Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex, Nifty at day’s low; autos outshine, India VIX up 2%

Indian benchmark indices started the week on a negative note, extending the losing streak on second day with Nifty 50 slipping below 25,200, intraday, amid selling seen in the IT, financial and pharma stocks.

At close, the Sensex was down 466.26 points or 0.56 percent at 82,159.97, and the Nifty was down 124.70 points or 0.49 percent at 25,202.35. BSE Midcap and smallcap indices shed 0.7% each.

On the sectoral front, IT index was down 2.7 percent, pharma down 1.2 percent, while power index was up 1.6 percent, oil & gas index up 0.4 percent and metal index rose 0.4 percent.

Biggest Nifty losers were Tech Mahindra, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cipla, while gainers were Adani Enterprises, Bajaj Auto, Eternal, Adani Ports, Bajaj Financ