Tuesday 8 Aug Sensex down 240 points; Nifty slips below 10,000

Indian share markets have opened the day marginally higher in early trade on Tuesday. Later at 10.35 am update, the BSE Sensex was trading lower by 243.66 points and NSE Nifty was trading lower by 76.15 points below 10,000 mark. The BSE Mid Cap and BSE Small Cap were trading down by 0.1% each. 

Sectoral indices are trading on a mixed trend. Capital goods stocks and Metal stocks were leading the gains in the morning hours, while PSU stocks and Energy stocks were trading in red. The Indian rupee was trading at Rs 63.73 against the UD dollar Hindalco Industries Ltd’s share price surged 6 percent in morning trade after the company said that its board will think rising up to Rs 44 billion via debt. 

Investors are on the lookout of the quarterly profit announcement of Bank of India, Jindal Steel, NCC, Tata Chemicals and Muthoot Finance among others, which are scheduled to announce their numbers today.