Budget 2025 share market impact Highlights: Sensex, Nifty 50 end flat amid high volatility; FMCG, realty stocks rally

Budget 2025 Share Market Impact: Indian stock market traders experienced high volatility today as the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2025-2026 in the Parliament. Stock and commodity exchanges, BSE, NSE and MCX conducted a special trading session on Saturday, 1 February 2025, on account of the Budget 2025. 

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The benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, ended flat amid high volatility after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech. Key sectors like insurance, FMCG, real estate, power, railways and defence were on investors’ radar amid the Budget impact on the share market. The Sensex closed 5.39 points, or 0.01%, higher at 77,505.96, while the Nifty 50 settled 26.25 points, or 0.11%, lower at 23,482.15, on Saturday after witnessing strong fluctuations during the session. Among sectoral indices, Nifty FMCG, Nifty Realty, Nifty Media and Nifty Auto rallied the most, while Nifty PSU Bank, Nifty Metals, Nifty Pharma and Nifty Oil & Gas were the losers.