India, July 24 -- India stock markets are sharply down today, Friday, July 24, when the Nifty 50 had fallen by more than 1% during early trading hours. The Nifty 50 had fallen more than 260 points to hit an intraday low at 23,606. This decline was not restricted to only large-cap equities, as the Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 indices had also fallen by up to 1.5%. The fall in the markets had resulted in a loss of almost Rs.6 lakh crore for investors, as the market capitalization of BSE-listed firms had come down to around Rs.471 lakh crore from Rs.477 lakh crore in the previous session.

NSE Nifty 50 Today

The NSE Nifty 50 index continued its downward trend on Friday, having closed the day at 23,770.10, having gone down by 99.5...