Stock Market Today: Nifty, Sensex Off Day's Lows But End Lower For Third Day; HDFC, Maruti Suzuki Top Drags

That's all for today folks. Some parting thoughts:

As the markets still await a conclusion in US-India trade deal, Indian exporters are worried about missing the US summer shopping season if they are unable to lock in orders in January. This will be the decisive month for sealing the trade pact so contracts can be secured for the first half of 2026.

Read how the lack of trade deal is affecting them.

Silver futures on the MCX fell on Wednesday by nearly Rs 8,000 to hit the day's low of 2,51,729. However, it recovered and as of 3:47 p.m it was trading 1.76% lower at Rs 2,54,249. The decline comes shortly after Peter McGuire, CEO of Trading.com Australia said silver's rally is unlikely to be linear and will see sharp pullbacks of 6–8% in a single day before renewed upward momentum.

• ICICI Bank, Titan, TCS, HCLTech and Sun Pharma emerged as the top gainers for the day.

• On the other hand, HDFC Bank, Maruti Suzuki, Bharti Airtel, SBI and Cipla were the worst performers of the Nifty 50 index.

• In contrast broader indices ended in the positive. Nifty Midcap 150 ended 0.43% higher and Nifty Smallcap 250 closed 0.15% higher.

• Most sectoral indices fell with Nifty Auto and Nifty Oil And Gas leading the decline, while Nifty IT and Nifty Pharma were among the gainers.

• The market breadth was skewed in the favour of buyers, as 2,099 stocks declined, 2,073 advanced and 179 remained unchanged on the BSE.

• Indian equities end lower for the third consecutive day.

• Nifty that had fallen below the 26,100 level and Sensex that was down nearly 300 points saw some recovery towards the last leg.

• Intraday, both Nifty and Sensex fell nearly 0.50%.

• Nifty ends 37.95 points or 0.14% lower at 26,140.75.

• Sensex ends 102.20 points or 0.12% down at 84,961.14.