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At close, the Sensex was up 94.05 points or 0.14 percent at 67,221.13, and the Nifty was down 3.10 points or 0.02 percent at 19,993.20.

After a gap-up start, the market came under pressure and witnessed high volatility with Nifty hovering around the 20,000-mark.

BSE Sensex and Nifty50 indices fell 318 and 117 points from their respective intraday highs of 67,539.10 and 20,110.35.

Top gainers on the Nifty included TCS, L&T, Infosys, Divis Labs and UltraTech Cement, while BPCL, Power Grid Corp, NTPC, Adani Enterprises and Coal India were among the top losers.

Except Information Technology (up 1 percent), all other sectoral indices ended in the red with auto, capital goods, power, oil & gas, metal and realty down 1-3 percent each.

The BSE midcap and Smallcap indices posted a steepest fall in 2023, falling 3 percent and 4 percent, respectively.

A long build-up was seen in TCS, L&T and Infosys, while a short build-up was seen in ITC, GMR Airports Infrastructure and Vodafone Idea.

Among individual stocks, a volume spike of more than 400 percent was seen in Hindustan Copper, India Cements and Indiabulls Housing Finance.

More than 250 stocks touched their 52-week high on the BSE, including Axis Bank, Adani Power, Karnataka Bank, ITI, Wipro, Central Bank Of India, SJVN, Rail Vikas Nigam, HCL Technologies, Larsen & Toubro, Power Grid Corporation OF India, Exide Industries, among others.

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