.Stock Market Highlights today, August 5, 2024: Equity benchmark marks, BSE Sensex and also the NSE Nifty, dropped sharplyon Monday to finish at a loss, in tandem with losses amongst global peers. At shut, the Sensex was at 78,768.42, down as high as 2,222.5 points or even 2.74 per-cent. The index dropped virtually 3 per-cent to strike the time's reduced of 78,296 on Monday.Mirroring the Sensex, the Nifty50 additionally rolled 662 points or even 2.68 percent to settle at 24,055.6. After posting a gap-down opening, the index rolled 3.33 percent to strike Monday's reduced of 23,894.The anxiety mark, India VIX, finished at 20.37 points, up 42.23 per-cent, indicating gigantic volatility in the markets. The volatility mark zoomed 61 per-cent intraday to 23.15 levels, marking its own biggest boost because 2015.Bears took over as 45 out of the fifty specified sells on Nifty50 posted an adverse closing. Tata Motors, ONGC, Adani Slots, Tata Steel, as well as Hindalco were the best laggards, clocking approximately 7-per cent loss.Coming from the BSE room, 28 away from the 30 elements of the Sensex ended lower, with Tata Motors and Adani Slots being actually the leading laggards. Merely Hindustan Unilever and Nestle India handled to finish in the environment-friendly.In the broader markets, the Nifty SmallCap as well as MidCap marks fell 4.5 per cent and also 3.5 per cent, specifically.The sectoral marks likewise encountered pandemonium, finishing in reddish with losses in Automobile, Steel, IT, as well as Financial fields of as much as 4.85 percent.