Figures in this report are as of the close of trading on Friday 13 November 2026, from market reports published at about 4.25 pm IST. The market is closed for the weekend and trades next on Monday.
The close
The 30-share Sensex fell 318.55 points, or 0.39 per cent, to 81,592.45, ending a three-session winning run. The 50-share Nifty fell 155.05 points, or 0.61 per cent, to 25,144.30. Bank Nifty lost about 0.8 per cent, or 484 points, to 61,034. The midcap and smallcap indices each slipped about 0.2 per cent. On the BSE, 1,763 shares advanced, 2,328 declined and 167 were unchanged.
Auto, metal and realty each fell about 1 per cent, financial services and IT about 0.7 per cent and pharma about 0.5 per cent. FMCG was the only sector to end higher. Among Nifty 50 stocks, Shriram Finance fell about 3.4 per cent, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles about 3.3 per cent ahead of its results, Grasim about 2.6 per cent after missing margin estimates, and Hindalco and Adani Enterprises also lost ground. Eicher Motors, Asian Paints and Bharti Airtel were among the gainers. Outside the index, Hitachi Energy rose about 11 per cent and Amber Enterprises about 9 per cent.
Why the market fell
Reports cite three reasons: higher crude oil prices, the 6.09 per cent October retail inflation figure, which is above the RBI's 6 per cent upper limit and raises the odds of a rate rise in December, and selling in heavyweight stocks. Brent crude rose to about 95.5 to 95.7 dollars a barrel from about 92 dollars on Thursday, which the reports link to attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure and shipping disruption in the Strait of Hormuz. Rising US Treasury yields and expectations of a more hawkish US central bank also weighed on the rupee, which closed at 94.24 to the dollar, down 21 paise from 94.03.
Foreign investors bought equities worth Rs 7,831 crore, about 833 million dollars, on Thursday, extending a nine-session run of buying, and November inflows have passed 8 billion dollars, the highest for any month since December 2020. Flows for Friday had not been published at the time of writing.
The week
Despite Friday's fall, the Nifty rose about 0.5 per cent and the Sensex about 0.7 per cent over the week, a third straight weekly gain. The Nifty Smallcap index rose 3.6 per cent and the Midcap index 2.1 per cent, while the Nifty IT index fell 3.2 per cent, ending a six-week winning run, as investors moved out of AI-linked trades. Thirteen of 16 major sector indices ended the week higher.
The near-term outlook depends on crude, inflation and global interest-rate expectations, and higher oil with tighter policy could keep volatility high. This is a market report and not investment advice. Reports differed on some stock-level percentages, which are given here only where they agreed.
