Top 5 stocks of the day: The winners are Cipla, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Tata Motors, Sun Pharma, and SBI Life Insurance on other hand the largest losers are NTPC, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Bajaj Finance and Bajaj Finserv. With the exception of the auto and pharmaceutical industries, every sector saw a negative finish, with the indexes for electricity, information technology, oil and gas, metal, real estate, and banks all declining by 0.5–1%.
Sensex and NSE Nifty50
The Nifty was down 140.40 points at 19,671.10, and the Sensex was down 551.07 points, or 0.83 percent, at 65,877.02 at the closing. A little over 1424 shares rose, 2144 shares fell, and 137 shares remained constant. On October 18, benchmark indices finished lower, with the Nifty closing below 19,700. Both the BSE Smallcap and Midcap index decreased by 0.3 and 0.8 percent, respectively.
Top 5 stocks of the day
| Name of companies | Change | Volume |
| CIPLA | 3.50% | 73,67,540 |
| Dr Reddy’s Laboratories | 2.18% | 6,02,971 |
| Tata Motors | 1.76% | 1,49,08,778 |
| Sun Pharma | 1.44% | 21,78,517 |
| SBI Life Insurance | 0.49% | 4,54,861 |
WomanCart has garnered healthy response; subscriptions of 29.90 times
With subscriptions of 29.90 times till the last day of bidding on October 18, the public offering of WomanCart received a positive response from the market. Investors acquired 3.32 crore equity shares against an offer size of 11.12 lakh. In contrast to high net worth individuals (HNIs), retail investors appeared more aggressive, bidding 16.67 times the allocated quota and purchasing 46.48 times the portion put available for them.
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