In the past two months alone, four companies have garnered a cumulative Rs 22,400 crore via this route.
The 30-share Sensex gained 136 points to end at 22,765 and the 50-share Nifty ended up 38 points at 6,818.
The S&P BSE Sensex gained nearly 0.4% or 96 points at 26087 level while the CNX Nifty edged higher by 42 points or 0.5% at 7,791.40 level.
Better-than-expected quarterly earnings by select index heavyweights, easing of US-EU trade tensions and firm foreign capital inflows boosted investor sentiment, brokers said.
IIP down due to poor show by manufacturing, mining and power sectors
The broader NSE Nifty, on the other hand, ended 2.70 points, or 0.02 per cent, lower at 11,555.90 in its third straight day of losses.
HDFC Bank was the top loser in the Sensex pack, falling 2.99 per cent, followed by Adani Ports at 2.87 per cent.
The BSE Midcap index has declined 5.7% thus far in May 2018. In comparison, the S&P BSE Small-cap index has lost 5.6%
India Inc gets about Rs 67,000 crore worth of fresh orders in the Sept quarter, a rise of 45% sequentially.
The 30-share Sensex closed lower by 256 points at 25,610.
'You can put 25 per cent right now; put another 25 per cent when Nifty corrects another 500 points.' 'At 13,500 put another 25 per cent and at 13,000 one can get fully deployed.'
The 30-share Sensex shed 79 points at 24,298 and the 50-share Nifty slipped 23 points to 7,253 levels.
Industry players said they were indeed seeing a serious fall in capacity usage, though some sectors were seeming to prevent further fall in the overall capacity utilisation.
Going forward, the February factory output may be impacted as several industries such as automobiles, technology, pharma and fashion have some exposure to imports of raw and intermediate materials from China.
Manufacturing sector, which constitutes over 75 per cent of the index, grew at 5.5 per cent in November compared to a decline in output by 4.6 per cent earlier
With this India will continue to retain the position of being the fastest growing emerging economy. And by 2021, its growth rate is projected to be 1.5 per cent more than China's 6 per cent.
The 50-share NSE Nifty too rose by 20.35 points, or 0.19 per cent, to end at 10,908.70.
The rupee soaring to an over fresh three-month high against the dollar during the day fuelled the upward trend.
L&T, ONGC and banking scrips power gains in today's trade
ICICI Bank topped the Sensex gainers' chart, spurting 5.09 per cent, followed by L&T, Bharti Airtel, Vedanta and Tata Motors, rising up to 4.60 per cent.
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Unless we control the coronavirus, we are going to struggle to get our economy and country back on track. The spectre of the virus haunts recovery, warns Naushad Forbes.
The company's planned capex for 2019-2020, which was Rs 12,000 crore, has now been revised down to around Rs 8,000 crore.
Many imported things became costlier as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday hiked customs duties on these products in the Union Budget 2018-19.
The broader 50-issue NSE Nifty edged up just 0.10 points to close at 10,806.60
It, however, was a record-smashing week for both the indices, which scaled their lifetime highs.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the Interim Budget for 2014-15 on Monday. Income Tax rates were kept unchanged.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday slashed excise duty on cars, SUVs and two-wheelers, and capital goods and consumer durables.
Top losers in the Sensex pack included ICICI Bank, Tata Steel, Vedanta, HDFC IndusInd Bank, Tata Motors, RIL and ONGC -- falling up to 4.45 per cent.
An appreciating rupee, unabated buying by domestic institutional investors (DIIs) and encouraging earnings by blue-chips contributed to the uptrend
The shortfall in the Centre's GST collections has raised concerns over it meeting the fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent of GDP, reports Ishan Bakshi.
Investors started booking profit at record highs in absence of cues from global markets that remained closed for the New Year holiday.
The NSE Nifty after shuttling between 10,441.90 and 10,341.90, ended 6.15 points, or 0.06 per cent down at 10,380.45.
The government made these changes in the third edition of the Consolidated FDI Policy Circular, a ready reckoner on foreign investment-related regulations that was released in New Delhi on Thursday.
'Unless the economy is sound in the country how can only three movies collected so much business in a single day?'
Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast a 0.5 per cent growth in output
P Chidambaram presented the Budget for the 9th time.
This growth seen by the consumer goods was led mainly by the durables market, which rose 17.6%, the highest in 11 months
Among sectoral indices, telecom led the chart, spurting 3.08 per cent, followed by oil and gas.
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