
Stock Market 17th April: The Indian stock market is showing a weak start on Thursday after a steady rise in the last two days. The Sensex has declined by about 180 points, while the Nifty has fallen to below 23400. As soon as the market opened, the Sensex declined by 181.39 points i.e. 0.24 percent and is trading at 76862.90. While the Nifty is trading at a level of 61.86 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 23,375.35, which is about 80 points below the bandh a day before. Wipro is trading below 5 percent.
On Wednesday, the US stock market also saw a huge decline. The Indian market has not been untouched by this impact of the decline in Asian markets. NVIDIA shares saw a rapid fall. Dow Jones average fell 1.73 percent to close at 39,339.39, while S&P came down 2.24% and closed at 5,275.70. Nasdaq Composite came down 3.05 percent to come to 16,307.16.
On Thursday, there was a slight rise and Dow Jones was 0.40 percent, S&P 500 0.47% and Nasdaq 100 Futures saw an increase of 0.56 percent. A day before, the local stock market continued to rise on Wednesday and the BSE Sensex rose 309.40 points to cross the level of 77,000 points again. While NSE Nifty also gained 108.65 points.