Stock Sectors: Stock Update: Mining Stocks Fall as Market Falls

NEW DELHI: Mining stocks closed lower in Thursday’s session.

The largest gainers included 20 Microns Ltd. (up 3.31%).

KIOCL Ltd. (down 6.27%), Oriental Trimex Ltd. (down 4.27%), Sandur Manganese & Iron Ores Ltd. (down 3.92%), NMDC Ltd. (down 3.38 %), Aro Granite Industries Ltd. (down 2.66%), Ashapura Minechem Ltd. (down 2.52%), Lexus Granito(India) Ltd. (down 2.50%), Madhav Marbles & Granites Ltd. (down 1.97%), Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. (down 1.78%) and MOIL Ltd. (down 1.38%) were among the top losers of the day.

The NSE Nifty50 index ended the session down 216.05 points at 22,488.65, while the 30-share BSE Sensex ended down 617.3 points at 73,885.6.

ICICI Bank Ltd. (up 1.07%), Axis Bank Ltd. (up 0.71%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (up 0.44%), State Bank of India (up 0.39%) ), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (up 0.14%) and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (up 0.01%) were among the top gainers on the Nifty. In turn, Tata Steel Ltd. (down 5.8%), Tech Mahindra Ltd. (down 3.55%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (down 3.47%), Titan Company Ltd. (down by 3.22%), Wipro Ltd. (down by 3.08%), Shriram Finance Ltd. (down by 3.03%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (down by 2.92%), Nestle India Ltd. (down 2.89%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (down 2.8%) and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. (down 2.33%) ended the session in the red.