New Delhi: The Indian stock market made a new history today. Due to strong buying by investors, the BSE Sensex jumped by 1,600 points and crossed 83,000 for the first time. Nifty also touched the historic level of 25,433 with a gain of more than 500 points. The credit for this rise goes to the rise in the global market as well as banking, energy, auto, and IT stocks. At the time of market closing, Sensex closed at 82,962 with a gain of 1,440 points and Nifty closed at 25,389 with a gain of 470 points.

Increase in wealth by Rs 6.50 lakh crore

This historic rise in the stock market led to a huge jump in the wealth of investors. The market cap of the stocks listed on BSE increased to Rs 467.22 lakh crore, which was Rs 460.76 lakh crore in the previous session. That is, in today's session, the wealth of investors increased by Rs 6.46 lakh crore.

Which stocks rose and fell

A total of 4,069 stocks were traded on BSE today, of which 2,335 stocks closed with gains while 1,612 stocks declined. There was no change in the prices of 122 stocks. 29 out of 30 stocks of BSE Sensex were up while only one stock closed with a decline. All 50 stocks of Nifty closed with gains. Among the gainers, Hindalco closed with a gain of 4.40%, Bharti Airtel 4.37%, NTPC 3.90%, Shriram Finance 3.68%, Mahindra & Mahindra 3.26%, Eicher Motors 3.14%, ONGC 3.07%, Wipro 3.05%, and Adani Ports 2.94%. Major losers were Granules India down 16.52%, Biocon at 2.26%, Apollo Tyres at 1.07%, and Gujarat Gas at 0.81%.

All sectors saw growth.

Today's session saw a rise in stocks in all sectors. Stocks of banking, IT, auto, FMCG, energy, and healthcare sectors saw a great rise. There was also heavy buying in midcap and smallcap stocks, which led to an all-round enthusiasm in the market.