.Stock Market Highlights today, August 5, 2024: Equity benchmark marks, BSE Sensex and also the NSE Nifty, dropped sharplyon Monday to finish at a loss, in tandem with reductions one of worldwide peers. At close, the Sensex went to 78,768.42, down as long as 2,222.5 factors or even 2.74 per-cent. The index plunged nearly 3 percent to strike the day's reduced of 78,296 on Monday.Exemplifying the Sensex, the Nifty50 additionally tumbled 662 factors or 2.68 per-cent to work out at 24,055.6. After posting a gap-down opening, the mark tumbled 3.33 per cent to hit Monday's reduced of 23,894.The fear index, India VIX, finished at 20.37 aspects, up 42.23 per-cent, signifying substantial volatility out there. The volatility mark zoomed 61 per cent intraday to 23.15 degrees, indicating its own biggest rise given that 2015.Bears consumed as forty five away from the fifty listed inventories on Nifty50 posted a bad closing. Tata Motors, ONGC, Adani Ports, Tata Steel, and Hindalco were actually the best laggards, clocking up to 7-per penny reduction.Coming from the BSE room, 28 out of the 30 constituents of the Sensex ended lower, with Tata Motors and Adani Ports being actually the top laggards. Merely Hindustan Unilever and also Nestle India took care of to end in the environment-friendly.In the broader markets, the Nifty SmallCap and MidCap indices fell 4.5 per cent and 3.5 percent, respectively.The sectoral marks additionally encountered trouble, ending in red along with reductions in Vehicle, Steel, IT, as well as Banking industries of up to 4.85 per cent.