.Stock Market Highlights today, August 5, 2024: Equity benchmark marks, BSE Sensex and also the NSE Nifty, dropped sharplyon Monday to end in the hole, in tandem along with reductions one of worldwide peers. At shut, the Sensex was at 78,768.42, down as long as 2,222.5 points or even 2.74 percent. The mark plunged nearly 3 per cent to attack the day's reduced of 78,296 on Monday.Exemplifying the Sensex, the Nifty50 additionally rolled 662 factors or even 2.68 per-cent to work out at 24,055.6. After submitting a gap-down position, the mark rolled 3.33 per-cent to strike Monday's reduced of 23,894.The concern index, India VIX, finished at 20.37 points, up 42.23 per cent, showing enormous dryness available. The dryness mark zoomed 61 percent intraday to 23.15 degrees, signifying its own biggest increase because 2015.Bears managed as forty five away from the fifty specified sells on Nifty50 published an adverse closing. Tata Motors, ONGC, Adani Ports, Tata Steel, and Hindalco were the top laggards, clocking approximately 7-per penny loss.From the BSE room, 28 away from the 30 constituents of the Sensex finished lower, with Tata Motors as well as Adani Ports being actually the leading laggards. Merely Hindustan Unilever as well as Nestle India handled to finish in the green.In the more comprehensive markets, the Nifty SmallCap and MidCap indices fell 4.5 per-cent as well as 3.5 per-cent, specifically.The sectoral marks additionally dealt with chaos, ending in reddish along with reductions in Auto, Steel, IT, and also Financial fields of approximately 4.85 per-cent.