📊 Stock Market LIVE | August 19, 2025 (Tuesday)

• 🏦 Benchmarks Trade Higher:
  • Sensex: 81,540 (+266 pts | +0.33%)
  • Nifty50: 24,948 (+72 pts | +0.29%)
• 🔼 Top Gainers (Sensex pack): Tata Motors, Reliance Industries, Adani Ports, Bharti Airtel, Kotak Mahindra Bank
• 🌐 Broader Markets:
  • Nifty MidCap: +0.49%
  • Nifty SmallCap: +0.57%
• 📈 Sectoral Trend:
  • Positive ➡️ All except FMCG, Pharma & Financial Services

🔥 Buzzing Stocks

• 🛒 Reliance Industries: +2.14% after Reliance Consumer Products forays into healthy beverages via JV with Naturedge Beverages
• 📱 Reliance Jio: Discontinues ₹209 & ₹249 prepaid packs → new base plan at ₹299 (1.5GB/day, 28 days)
• 🪨 Vedanta: +1.5% ahead of board meet (Aug 21) on 2nd interim dividend; record date Aug 27

💹 IPO Updates

• 🏢 Mainboard IPOs: Patel Retail, Vikram Solar, Gem Aromatics & Shreeji Shipping open for bidding
• 🧾 SME IPOs:
  • LGT Business Connextions → Opened today
  • Studio LSD → Entered Day 2