₹425 lakh crore from nearly ₹423.5 lakh crore in the previous session, making investors richer by about ₹1.5 lakh crore in a single session.UltraTech Cement (up 3.26 per cent), Grasim Industries (up 2.43 per cent) and Hero MotoCorp (up 2.30 per cent) ended as the top gainers among the 27 stocks that ended in the green in the Nifty 50 index.Shares of Tech Mahindra (down 2.66 per cent), Infosys (down 2.31 per cent) and Wipro (down 1.88 per cent) closed as the top losers in the Nifty 50 index.Nifty IT lost 1.83 per cent on profit booking after recent gains as rate cut hopes waned. On the other hand, Nifty Media (up 1.86 per cent), Realty (up 1.32 per cent), and Pharma (up 1 per cent) closed with significant gains.Nifty Bank slipped 0.04 per cent, while the Private Bank index declined 0.09 per cent.
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