NEW DELHI: Nine stocks, including Bang Overseas, Britannia Industries, Graphite India, HEG and Hindustan Unilever hit 52-week highs on NSE on Thursday, compared with 177 stocks that touched 52-week lows.Equity market benchmarks Nifty and Sensex settled in the negative territory.Losses in energy, IT, pharma, consumer durables, metal and teck stocks, in the backdrop of negative Asian cues, and depreciating Indian currency against the US dollar caused the market to snap its two-day winning streak on Thursday.Market barometer Sensex remained listless through the day, barring intermittent small gains, as investors looked for direction while the imminent imposition of US tariffs on China kept them on tenterhooks.The unabated slide of the Indian rupee against the US dollar further dampened the sentiment.
The BSE Sensex fell for 71 points, or 0.20 per cent, stopping at 35,575, with 15 stocks in the green and 16 in the red.The NSE Nifty50 shed 20 points, or 0.19 per cent, to settle at 10,750, with 26 stocks advancing and 24 declining.
YES Bank, Ultratech Cement and ITC led the pack of Nifty gainers.