The Sensex ended in red on domestic concerns.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 8 points at 27,508 and the 50-share Nifty closed 1 point higher at 8,284.
Profit-booking and selling pressure on below-normal monsoon forecast, marred sentiments, traders said.
Sensex is under pressure due to concerns in the global market.
The Sensex ended down 251 points at 27,351 and the Nifty shed 65 points to close at 8,228.
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Growth in the eight core sectors jumped to 8.5% in April, due to a sharp pick-up in refinery products and a commensurate rise in electricity generation.
Roadshows will be held in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, New York and Boston, NTPC gained close to 1%.
The Nikkei share average rose 2.6% to close at 15,195.77 points, more than recouping Tuesday's losses.
Top gainers from the Sensex pack are Asian Paints, Bajaj Auto, ITC, NTPC, L&T and HDFC, all up 2% each
ONGC, Sesa Sterlite, Tata Steel, RIL and HDFC emerged as the biggest losers
Above normal monsoon forecast and strength in Asian equities lifted sentiments.
Sensex witnessed the biggest single day gain since May 2009 in absolute terms.
BSE Sensex ended at 25,549.72 up by 321 points or 1.27% and the Nifty ended 7624.40 up by 97.75 points or 1.30%.
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Shedding its gains from Monday, NIkkei has declined around 0.7% while Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite were trading marginally lower.
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The government is scheduled to release index of industrial growth for November and consumer price inflation for December later today.
Going by the current pace, IT firms are likely to exceed the manufacturing sector in salary payouts over the next five years.
Benchmark share indices ended at record closing highs, amid a volatile trading session on Monday, with IT majors leading the gains.
Automobile sector accounts for the third-highest equity mutual fund contributions.
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The 30-share Sensex ended 117 points higher at 26,560 and the 50-share Nifty gained 31 points to end at 7,936.
Markets extended gains led by financials and capital goods shares coupled with a rebound in IT shares.
Sensex surged 486 points or 1.9%.
The Sensex ended up 244 points at 28,504 on strong global cues.
'To ensure you remain with the better performers, you need to consistently monitor your MF portfolios and weed out the non-performers, even if they are from a star fund manager or a fund house with a sound record.'
Despite the rating agency CARE withdrawing the ratings assigned to the bank facilities of FIPL "with immediate effect" following the receipt of a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the banks, Modi's company received uninterrupted letters of undertaking (LoUs) from PNB, which were honoured by other banks until a few weeks ago.
If India grows at 8 per cent, the Indian banks will grow much faster.
The Nifty and Bank Nifty ended at record closing high of 7,913 and 15,865 respectively.
Interest rates on bank FDs have started coming down and rates on other fixed-income products will also decline. Investors should lock in to instruments offering higher returns.
Indradhanush-II is likely to chart out the process for resolution of non-performing assets.
'By not letting bankrupt banks fail, we have discouraged ordinary folk from taking precautions while choosing their bank or at least when they hear bad news about their bank,'says S Muralidharan, former MD, BNP Paribas.
Dabhol's assets will be demerged into the power plant and the LNG terminal.
Sensex closed the day 416 points higher.
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.
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