Stock market today: Sensex, Nifty 50 end flat; Reliance, Bharti Airtel among top drags; midcaps, smallcaps outperform | Stock Market News

Stock market today: Indian stock market benchmarks- the Sensex and the Nifty 50- ended flat on Tuesday, December 10, as gains in shares of select heavyweights, such as Infosys, ICICI Bank and SBI, were offset by losses in those of Reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel and Larsen and Toubro (L&T).

The Sensex closed just 2 points up at 81,510.05, while the Nifty 50 settled at 24,610.05, down 9 points.

Mid and smallcap segments of the market outperformed the benchmarks. The BSE Midcap index rose 0.30 per cent and the Smallcap index climbed 0.33.

Sectoral indices today

While the market benchmarks ended lacklustre, the majority of sectoral indices ended in positive territory. Nifty Realty rose over a per cent, followed by the IT index, which climbed almost a per cent.

Nifty Bank snapped its last two session’s losing run to end with modest gains of 0.32 per cent, with shares of PNB, SBI, Kotak Mahindra Bank and ICICI Bank among the top gainers.