BSE Sensex and Nifty50, the Indian equity benchmark indices, tanked in trade on Friday. While BSE Sensex went below 79,400, Nifty5

Stock market today: Even as the Indian stock market benchmark Sensex crashed over 700 points, or nearly 1%, almost 200 stocks hit their fresh one-year highs in intraday trade on the BSE on Friday, January 3.

At the close of trading, the Sensex was down by 720.60 points, or 0.90 per cent, at 79,223.11, and the Nifty dropped 183.90 points, or 0.76 per cent, to end at 24,004.75