Sensex closes flat around 61,760, Nifty remains above 18,260 mark

On Tuesday, major indices of the stock market ended flat with the Sensex settling at 61,761.33 points and the Nifty closing at 18,265.95 points. Following the broader market trend, the midcap stocks also traded flat with the Nifty Midcap 50 settling at 9,152.8 points. Here are more details on the markets' performance on Tuesday.

Talking about the top-performing sectors of the market, NIFTY IT, NIFTY AUTO, and NIFTY PHARMA led the way, gaining 0.73%, 0.47%, and 0.42%, respectively. Divis Labs, Coal India, and TCS emerged as the top-performing stocks, edging up 2.94%, 1.33%, and 1.31%, respectively. Coming to the top losing stocks, UPL, ITC, and SBI emerged as the biggest losers, dropping 3.03%, 1.85%, and 1.81%, respectively.

In the Asian markets, Shanghai Composite Index declined 1.11% to 3,357.67 points while Hang Seng Index plunged 2.16% to 19,867.58 points. Japan's Nikkei index moved up 1%, closing at 29,242.82 points. In the US market, NASDAQ gained 21.5 points, or 0.18%, to 12,256.92 points.

The Indian rupee (INR) on Tuesday weakened against the US Dollar, falling 0.28% to settle at Rs. 82.04. The gold futures prices surged by 0.44% to Rs. 61,196, while the silver futures settled flat at Rs. 77,107. On the other hand, the crude oil futures slipped 0.8% to $72.66 per barrel.

Fuel prices in Delhi remained the same with diesel priced at Rs. 89.66/liter and petrol at Rs. 96.76/liter. Fuel prices in Mumbai also saw no change with diesel costing Rs. 94.25/liter and petrol priced at Rs. 106.29/liter.

Bitcoin is trading at $27,593.30 which is 1.34% down from yesterday. Ethereum is down 1.01% and is selling at $1,840.59. Tether, BNB, and Cardano are listed at $1.00 (0.07% down), $314.63 (0.77% down), and $0.3627 (1.56% down), respectively. Dogecoin is trading at $0.0726, down 2.98% from yesterday.