Mumbai: The BSE Sensex declined 115.06 points to 83,763.11 aft rallying over 350 points in early trade on Tuesday. The NSE Nifty went down 53.40 points to 25,735.95.
The equity benchmark indices traded lower after rallying in early trade amid relentless foreign fund outflows and selling in blue-chip stocks.
Foreign institutional investors continued to sell equities and offloaded worth Rs 3,638.40 crore on Monday, while Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) infused Rs 5,839.32 crore to purchase stocks.
Laggards and Gainers
Laggards from the 30-Sensex pack: Reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Steel, Larsen & Toubro, and HCL Tech. Gainers included, State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, Eternal, and Tech Mahindra.
Q3 Results and Inflation data
India’s largest IT services exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) declared its Q3 Results of 2025-26 and recorded a 13.91 per cent decline in profit at Rs 10,657 crore.
IT services firm HCL Tech also posted a 11.2 per cent decline in consolidated net profit to Rs 4,076 crore in the third quarter of FY26.
Meanwhile, government data revealed that retail inflation jumped to a three-month high of 1.33 per cent in December 2025. The uptick in inflation was a result of increased prices of food items, but remained below the Reserve Bank of India’s lower tolerance level.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index, South Korea’s Kospi index, and Japan’s Nikkei 225 index traded in positive territory, while Shanghai’s SSE Composite index quoted marginally lower. The US stock markets settled in Green on Monday. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, appreciated 0.30 per cent to USD 64.06 per barrel.
On 12 January 2026, i.e., Monday, the 30-share barometer jumped 301.93 points to finish at 83,878.17. The Nifty gained 106.95 points to end at 25,790.25.
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