Sensex-Nifty
Indian Market: Sensex advances 377.75 pts
Mumbai: The benchmark index of Bombay Stock Exchange rallied 377.75 pts to close at 60,663.79 following gains in Commodities, Health Care, IT and Technology stocks along with rising Repo Rates in RBI Monetary policy announced on Wednesday.
The Nifty of National Stock Exchange (NSE) surged 150.20 pts at 18,871.70.
The day opened on a positive note at 60,332.99, rising 36 pts. Throughout the session, the sensex spurted 506 pts at 60,792.10, days high, before closing at 60,663.79, surging 377.75 pts from its previous close.
The sectoral indices like Commodity was increased 2.28 pc followed by IT by 1.51 pc, Health Care by 1.20 pc and Technology by 1.09 pc.
In scrips, Bajaj Finance was a top gainer, up 2.98 pc to Rs 6342.75 followed by Ultracemco by 2.43 pc to Rs 7245, Reliance Industries by 1.95 pc to Rs 2350.90 and Wipro by 1.82 pc to Rs 407.60.
While, the losers were L& T by 1.45 pc to Rs 2134.40, Bharti Airtel by 1.32 pc to Rs 775, Axis Bank by 0.84 pc to Rs 871.60 and Kotak Bank by 0.59 pc to Rs 1764.30.
The Mid Cap rose by 1 pc and Small Cap by 0.76 pc.
In 30 scrips, 26 advanced while 4 declined.
(With UNI inputs)
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
