The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 145 points at 15,840. It finally closed with a gain of 113 points (0.72%) at 15808. BHEL moved up 3.7% to Rs 1,830. L&T added 3.6% at Rs 2,774. Reliance Energy gained 2% at Rs 1,281.Reliance advanced over 3% to Rs 2,550. Satyam, SBI, Hindalco, M&M and RCom also finished with gains. Ambuja Cements, Infosys, ICICI Bank, HUL and ITC declined. Reliance was the most active counter with a turnover of Rs 361 cr followed by Reliance Petroleum.
Fresh buying in late trades saw the index rally past the 10,000-mark to a high of 10,009. The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 145 points at 9,977. The NSE Nifty ended at 3,042, up 61 points.
Having opened with a huge positive gap of 128 points at 15,772 and moved up to a high of 15,834 in morning deal, the Sensex dropped to 15,298 - an intra-day swing of 536 points. It finally closed with a marginal loss of 18 pts at 15,627. BHEL, L&T, M&M, Wipro, Tata Steel, Bharti, ICICI Bank & Infosys were major losers. HUL, ITC, Reliance, ONGC & Reliance Energy were major gainers. GSS America was the most active counter with a turnover of Rs 468cr followed by Reliance Capital
In the Sensex pack, ICICI Bank emerged as the top gainer by rising 0.97 per cent, while Tata Steel advanced 0.92 per cent.
The Sensex touched a high of 15,798, and finally ended with a gain of 403 points (2.6%) at 15,760. The NSE Nifty was up 122 points at 4,746. The BSE Realty index surged 4.8% to 7,713. New entrant Jaiprakash Associates soared nearly 8% to Rs 236. Reliance Energy, DLF, ICICI Bank, Satyam, Reliance Communications, TCS, Infosys & Tata Steel were gainers on Friday. Bharti Airtel, M&M, Ambuja Cements & Maruti were notable losers. Reliance Natural Resources topped the value charts.
The NSE index, Nifty, hogged the limelight on Monday as the index scaled a new all-time intra-day high of 4269. The index also settled at a record level of 4,261 -- up 46 points.
The Sensex opened marginally lower at 13,949 - down 17 points
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 42 points at 13,823.
Public sector major Oil & Natural Gas Corporation on Monday reported 6.46 per cent decline in net profit at Rs 4,366.54 crore (Rs 43.66 billion) for the quarter ended December 31, 2007 compared to Rs 4,668.31 crore (Rs 46.68 billion) in the year-ago period.
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Reliance led the rally today with a gain of nearly 3% (Rs 83) at Rs 2,986. ICICI Bank advanced nearly 5% (Rs 57) to Rs 1,285. L&T gained 4.5% (Rs 183) to Rs 4,244.
Reliance Industries Ltd, which recently demerged its overseas oil and gas projects, is debating hiving off its giant Krishna-Godavari gas field, but ruled out talks for inducting US energy major Chevron as equity partner.
The broad market depicted strength. 1,525 shares rose and 1,131 shares fell. A total of 156 shares remained unchanged
The focus will be on tackling the unfinished agenda requiring immediate attention like tax structure for solar projects, uniform tax rate on state-organised and state-authorised lotteries, taxing non-potable alcohol besides certain changes in the law, extension for NAA and rate rationalisation.
The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 240 points at 19,603. The Nifty gains 102 points at 5,865.
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In the December quarter, Sensex earnings had contracted 5 per cent.
The BSE Sensex spurted 130.00 points to end at 35,980.93, while the broader NSE Nifty advanced 30.35 points to 10,802.15.
Investor wealth on Wednesday diminished by Rs 1.84 lakh crore amid massive sell-off in the equity market.
The markets opened in red in line with weak Asian peers.
The stock market benchmark Sensex on Monday crossed the psychologically gratifying 19,000- mark in a record four trading sessions on frantic buying in a number of front-line stocks.
The Sensex closed up 305.82 points or 2.32% at 13487.16, and the Nifty up 77.85 points or 2.07% at 3843.05.
The NSE Nifty ended at 4,938, up 7 points. The Realty index, however, dropped 3 per cent to 9085. The market breadth was negative - out of 2,816 stocks traded, 1,654 declined, 1,111 advanced and 51 were unchanged on Tuesday.
The market breadth was fairly positive -- out of 2,837 stocks traded, 1,813 advanced, 968 declined and 56 were unchanged on Tuesday.
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The NSE Nifty too ended 58.60 points, or 0.54 per cent, higher at 10,967.30 after shuttling between 10,985.15 and 10,928 during the session.
The Sensex, which hit a high of 15,593 in intra-day deals today, closed with a gain of 271 points at 15,572.
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 85 points at 14,088
This is the highest closing for both the indices since May 15.
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 90 points at 14,217
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