The NSE 50-share Nifty spurted 97.25 points, or 0.92 per cent, to 10,715.50
Thinning valuation gap between these and mid-caps indicates a shift in investors' preferences.
The main losers on the Sensex were Tata Steel, Hero Moto, BHEL, ONGC & Maruti Suzuki.
Metal stocks lose ground with Hindalco, Tata Steel, Sesa Sterlite down 4-10%.
Ends the August F&O series on a high tracking gains in RIL, HDFC and ITC.
Oil and gas sectot may not put up good numbers in Q4.
Market breadth is positive with 942 advances and 196 declines.
'The mismatch between valuations and fundamentals is startling,' warns Devangshu Datta
Sensex ended at 26,272 up 125 points and Nifty ended at 7,831 up by 35 points.
The 30-share Sensex was up 191 points at 28,707.75 and the 50-share Nifty was up 54 points at 8,714.
The 30-share Sensex dropped 298 points to end at 27,209 and the 50-share Nifty has lost 93 points to end at 8,174.
The market breadth, indicating the overall health of the market was strong
Experts tell Ujjval Jauhari that investors need to be careful in picking stocks given high valuations and with markets possibly ignoring potential risks
The Indian rupee also trimmed most of its early gains and was trading at Rs 61.28 compared to its Wednesday's close of Rs 61.31 to the US dollar.
The 30-share Sensex ended higher by 30 points.
Markets extended gains for the fourth consecutive day tracking gains in banks, capital goods and oil and gas majors.
The 30-share Sensex gained 321 points to end at 26,430 and the 50-share Nifty surged 100 points to end at 7,879.
Sensex remained volatile through the day.
Markets across the globe are rallying on hopes that the US Federal Reserve won't lift interest rates until 2016.
Sensex slumped 518 points to end the day at 25,582 and the Nifty slipped 164 points to close at 7,623.
'Tinkering will not do. Merely staggering spectrum dues comes nowhere near solving the problem,' cautions Rahul Khullar.
As fuel prices surged in September, the government's decision to ask companies to cut price by Rs1 each on a litre of petrol and diesel came as a dampner for private players.
Combined net profit estimated to grow 14.6% year-on-year, against a 5.7% decline in the Dec 2015 quarter
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries:
Making sense of the international crude market is incredibly hard.
Rising oil prices and diminishing cash pile to limit capacity in 2018-19
The 30-share Sensex ended down 90 points at 19,429 after hitting an intra-day low of 19,398 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 40 points at 5,881 after touching an intra-day low of 5,871.
Out of the 30-share Sensex pack, 21 ended lower and one remained unchanged
The 30-share Sensex ended 50 points lower at 28,112 and the 50-share Nifty declined 12 points to close at 8,531.
TCS, Power Grid and Infosys are among the top S&P BSE Sensex gainers
Prayas Jain has been arrested for allegedly buying secret documents.
Indian companies place orders worth $600 million for US crude, which is likely to increase by nearly $2 billion in the near future.
Capital Goods shares ended mixed on the back of weak IIP numbers. L&T ended down 0.7% while BHEL ended with marginal gains.
The broader NSE Nifty too fell below the 10,100 level by dropping 100.10 points to end at 10,094.25
The broader markets also ended lower in line with the benchmark indices
Five of the 12 BSE sectoral indices ended at 52-week highs; the oil and gas index zoomed by nearly 5%.
The entire selection process of the IOC chairman was shrouded in mediocrity and mystery.
According to a new subsidy sharing formula, the payout of upstream oil producers like ONGC is to be reduced to the extent of Rs 4,500 per tonne oil development cess they pay to the government, sources privy to the development said.
On Thursday, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had stated that the government was reworking the subsidy-sharing formula.
More than half the Sensex companies have declared their results for the third quarter and there are more positive surprises than disappointments.
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