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    Primer | Surprise is a fact of life. Do stock markets like it?

    Only a small section of the investor population forms its expectations based on analysis and logic

    Ananya Roy
    August 27, 2021 / 19:07 IST
    After hitting the 50,000 level on January 21, 2020, the benchmark index Sensex has lost over 1000 points in the last two days of trade. Meanwhile, moneycontrol analysis how much time it took to hit each milestone and which sectors were the star performers in each period. To understand we considered Sensex journey in four parts each period with 10,000 points - i.e 10,000-20,000 till 40,000-50,000. Data suggest that for the best performing sector, the BSE Healthcare sector topped the list twice out of 4 periods but if we considered top 5 sectors performance then the BSE Realty outshine the other sectoral indices as it arrived 3 out of 4 times in each of 10,000 points rise.
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