.Stock Market Features today, August 5, 2024: Equity benchmark marks, BSE Sensex and the NSE Nifty, fell sharplyon Monday to end in the red, in tandem with reductions amongst global peers. At close, the Sensex was at 78,768.42, down as high as 2,222.5 aspects or 2.74 per cent. The mark dropped virtually 3 per cent to reach the day's low of 78,296 on Monday.Exemplifying the Sensex, the Nifty50 also toppled 662 factors or even 2.68 percent to settle at 24,055.6. After submitting a gap-down position, the index rolled 3.33 percent to strike Monday's low of 23,894.The concern mark, India VIX, ended at 20.37 points, up 42.23 percent, indicating extensive volatility out there. The dryness mark zoomed 61 per cent intraday to 23.15 levels, signifying its own largest boost since 2015.Bears took over as forty five out of the fifty listed inventories on Nifty50 uploaded a damaging closing. Tata Motors, ONGC, Adani Ports, Tata Steel, and Hindalco were the best laggards, clocking around 7-per cent reduction.Coming from the BSE room, 28 away from the 30 constituents of the Sensex finished lower, with Tata Motors and also Adani Ports being the leading laggards. Simply Hindustan Unilever as well as Nestle India handled to end in the green.In the wider markets, the Nifty SmallCap and MidCap indices fell 4.5 per cent and 3.5 per-cent, specifically.The sectoral indices likewise encountered trouble, finishing in reddish along with losses in Automobile, Metal, IT, as well as Banking markets of approximately 4.85 per-cent.