Profit taking in index heavweights RIL and HDFC weighed on sentiment while ICICI Bank surged 7%.
The sentiment got support from better-than-expected earning results by select companies and continuous buying by domestic financial institutions.
Shares of L&T Technology Services, an arm of engineering giant Larsen and Toubro, made a decent debut on the bourses
The 50-issue Nifty fell 29.60 points or 0.34 per cent to close at 8,642.55
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Investors widened their bets on optimism that upcoming general budget -- to be unveiled next month - would contain incentives for corporates, which will help boost the economy
BSE Auto index fell over 0.5% after reports that automobiles might get costlier post GST
The BSE Midcap and the BSE Smallcap indices pared all intraday gains to end 0.3% and 0.5% lower
The S&P BSE Midcap and S&P BSE Smallcap indices hit a new lifetime high
Gains in key IT, capital goods, healthcare and metal stocks, after consistent buying by domestic and foreign investors, helped both the key indices to scale new peaks.
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After touching a fresh all-time low against the US dollar on Thursday, the rupee jumped 27 paise to end at 68.46.
Financials emerged as the top gainers while auto shares rallied on robust September sales
The NSE 50-share Nifty spurted 97.25 points, or 0.92 per cent, to 10,715.50
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The market sentiment was also impacted by mixed global cues as setbacks for a healthcare overhaul in the US raised doubts over prospects for a range of reforms backed by President Donald Trump.
However, investors have turned cautious over the likelihood of Britain leaving the European Union.
With global markets pushing ahead, enthused by strengthening US jobs market, and also due to prospects of European rate hike, Indian markets also continued the march ahead.
The broader market outperformed with the S&P BSE Midcap down 0.3%, while the S&P BSE Smallcap was little changed.
ONGC was the top performer while private banking major ICICI Bank extended gains
In the broader markets, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices extended gains and were up over 1% each
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No one deserves the title thespian more than Dilip Kumar, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is just 13 years old but the boy is already going places and this was his second win against a 2700 Grandmaster.
Investors engaged in profit booking in the recent gainers at attractive and higher valuations.
ICICI Bank extended yesterday gains, rising 10% in two trading sessions
On a weekly basis, the Sensex climbed 749.86 points or 2.69 per cent and the NSE Nifty soared 237.10 points or 2.76 per cent
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Anup Sridhar and Anand Pawar were among four Indians advancing to the pre-quarter-finals of the New Zealand Open Grand Prix badminton tournament in Auckland on Tuesday.
Market breadth depicted gains with 1,476 advances over 1,403 declines on the BSE. 140 stocks remained unchanged.
Three Indian-origin businessmen who swindled banks in Britain and the United States of more than 300 million pounds by pretending to run a worldwide metal trading empire have been sentenced to nearly 25 years in jail. Virendra Rastogi (39), Anand Jain (43) and Gautam Majumdar (57), ex-directors of metal trading business RBG Resources, were convicted at London's Southwark Crown Court of conspiracy to defraud on 23 April.
Former FIFA official Jerome Champagne formally announced on Monday that he will stand against incumbent Sepp Blatter in next year's election for president of the world soccer body.
India endured a medal-less outing at the Youth Olympics after the gold rush of the previous three days as the women's hockey team lost to Argentina and rising table tennis player Archana Kamath went down in the bronze medal match in Buenos Aires.
The summit would be held from November 4-6.
Asia has opened largely in the green ahead of a raft of Chinese data due during the day.
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