The more lethal wave of Covid-19 butchered bulls on Dalal Street on Monday as investors sold shares worth Rs 3.6 trillion in the markets today. While the defensive counters seen restricted profit-booking, cyclical sectors cracked hard at the Stock Exchanges. 

At close, the BSE Sensex was down 882.61 points at 47949.42, and the NSE Nifty was down 258.40 points at 14,359.50.
On the National Stock Exchange, the Nifty Pharma index was the only index that ended in the green, up 0.17 percent, while the Nifty IT and FMCG indices ended 0.33 percent and 0.9 percent down, respectively. The Nifty PSU Bank, Nifty Bank, Nifty Private Bank, and Nifty Financial Services indices slipped between 2.5 percent and 4 percent. The Nifty Auto, Reality, and Metal indices, meanwhile, tumbled up to 4 percent.

Britannia, Dr. Reddy's Labs, Infosys, Wipro, and Cipla were the only gainers on the Nifty index, up between 0.6 percent and 1.5 percent. On the downside, Adani Ports, Power Grid, ONGC, Hero MotoCorp, IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finserv, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and HDFC Life were the top drags, down up to 4 percent.

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