Sensex climbs 374 points, Nifty flat in mixed D-St session

A stock market is a place where people buy and sell small parts of big companies, called shares.

In India, the Sensex and the Nifty are like big scoreboards that track many important companies at once.

On Thursday, these two scoreboards ended the day differently from each other.

The Sensex went up by about 374 points, while the Nifty stayed almost exactly where it started.

One reason the market felt steady was that the price of oil, which many businesses need, went down.

Also, people were buying shares in two big companies, Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank.

Since Monday, the stock exchanges have been using a new way of setting the closing price for some shares, called the Closing Auction Session.

This new system seems to be one reason the Sensex and Nifty no longer move in the same way.

An expert said the difference is because big investors send more of their orders to the companies in the Nifty than to those in the Sensex.

Even with all that, investors stayed cautiously hopeful about a peaceful end to the Middle East conflict.