Stock market live watch: Green across the board, financial sector and realty spearhead the rise

Investors cheered as the benchmark indices of the Indianstock markets Sensex and Nifty 50 rose more than 1%.

The rise is supported by all market capitalisation companiesbut led by large-cap ones with the large-cap index Nifty 50 up by 1.14%, midcapindex up by 0.98%, and the small-cap index up by 0.59%

Not surprisingly, the fear index of the Indian capitalmarkets India Vix is red with the change being -4.41%.

Financial sectors are leading the rise with the indices NiftyFinancial Services being up by 2.39%, Nifty Bank up 2.91%, Nifty PSU Bank beingup by 2.96%, Nifty Private Bank being up by 2.67%.

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These sectors are supported by realty as the index for thissector Nifty Realty is up by 1.53%.

Other sectors are lying in the range of change of -0.25% to0.25%, namely FMCG, IT, Media, Metal.

Pharma is the noteworthy laggard today with it showing achange of -0.47%.

It is noteworthy that CPSE stocks are down with the indexNifty PSE showing -0.45%.

The top gainers from Nifty 50 are State Bank of India, UPL,Indusind Bank, ICICI Bank, and Bajaj Financial Services.

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The top losers are Cipla, Larsen & Toubro, BhartiAirtel, SBI Life, and Sun Pharma.