📉 Sensex Today | Stock Market LIVE Updates | August 8, 2025
Nifty Struggles Below 24,450 as Weekly Close Looms; Bharti Airtel, Midcaps Drag
Indian equity benchmarks traded lower on Friday, with the Nifty 50 opening 1,733 points below its record high of 26,277.35. The index must close above 24,565 today to avoid a sixth straight weekly loss — a streak not seen since February–March 2020, when the Nifty fell for seven consecutive weeks.
📊 Key Market Indicators (As of 1:00 PM)
- Nifty Bank: 🔻 Down ~300 pts
- Nifty Midcap: 🔻 Down ~400 pts
🔻 Top Nifty 50 Losers
- Adani Enterprises
- Bharti Airtel: Slipped after a large block deal involving 6.7 crore shares (1.1% equity) worth ₹12,563 crore
- Grasim Industries
- JSW Steel
- IndusInd Bank
📉 Broader Market Pressure
- 💍 Kalyan Jewellers (Midcap): Down ~8% after Q1 results
- 🛰️ Data Patterns (Smallcap): Down ~9%
🧾 Q1 Results in Focus
Reacting to Earnings:
- LIC, HPCL, Godrej Consumer Products, Titan
- Sun TV, Apollo Tyres, Ramco Cements
- Kalyan Jewellers
Scheduled to Report Today:
- 🚗 Tata Motors
- 🏦 SBI
- ❄️ Voltas
- 🌐 Info Edge India
- ⚙️ Siemens, Grasim Industries, Wockhardt
- 🛳️ Garden Reach Shipbuilders, PTC Industries
- 🏗️ Afcons Infrastructure, DOMS Industries
- 🧬 Concord Biotech, PG Electroplast, IFICI
- ⚡ Genus Power, 🏨 Lemon Tree Hotels
- 🧱 Star Cement, Power Mech Projects
- 🚢 Shipping Corporation of India, JK Tyre
- 🧵 Garware Technical Fibres, Bajel Projects
