.Stock Market Highlights today, August 5, 2024: Equity benchmark indices, BSE Sensex and the NSE Nifty, fell sharplyon Monday to end in the red, in tandem along with losses among worldwide peers. At close, the Sensex was at 78,768.42, down as much as 2,222.5 factors or 2.74 percent. The index plunged almost 3 per cent to strike the day's low of 78,296 on Monday.Representing the Sensex, the Nifty50 also toppled 662 points or even 2.68 per cent to work out at 24,055.6. After submitting a gap-down position, the mark tumbled 3.33 per-cent to hit Monday's low of 23,894.The fear mark, India VIX, ended at 20.37 points, up 42.23 per cent, indicating massive dryness in the marketplace. The volatility index zoomed 61 per-cent intraday to 23.15 amounts, indicating its biggest increase given that 2015.Bears managed as forty five out of the fifty detailed sells on Nifty50 published a damaging closing. Tata Motors, ONGC, Adani Ports, Tata Steel, and Hindalco were the top laggards, clocking around 7-per cent reduction.Coming from the BSE space, 28 away from the 30 constituents of the Sensex finished lower, with Tata Motors and also Adani Ports being actually the top laggards. Merely Hindustan Unilever and Nestle India took care of to end in the environment-friendly.In the wider markets, the Nifty SmallCap and MidCap indices fell 4.5 per cent and 3.5 per-cent, specifically.The sectoral marks additionally dealt with mayhem, ending in reddish with losses in Auto, Metallic, IT, and also Financial fields of around 4.85 per cent.