Closing Bell: Nifty below 25,500, Sensex down 176 pts; auto, FMCG, smallcaps outshine

In the rangebound session on July 9, the Indian equity indices ended weak with Nifty below 25,500.

At close, the Sensex was down 176.43 points or 0.21 percent at 83,536.08, and the Nifty was down 46.40 points or 0.18 percent at 25,476.10. About 1973 shares advanced, 1888 shares declined, and 123 shares unchanged.

Biggest Nifty losers included Tata Steel, HCL Technologies, Hindalco Industries, Apollo Hospitals, Tech Mahindra, while gainers were Shriram Finance, Bajaj Finance, HUL, UltraTech Cement, Coal India.

On the sectoral front, Metal, Realty and Oil & Gas indices down 1.4 percent each, media, IT, PSU Bank down 0.5 percent each, while FMCG, auto, Consumer Durables up 0.3-0.8 percent.

The BSE midcap index was ended flat, while smallcap index added 0.5 percent.