Top gainers in the sensex pack included L&T, Bajaj Finance, SBI, IndusInd Bank, Reliance, HDFC Bank and Bharti Airtel. (Representative image)
NEW DELHI: Equity indices jumped on Tuesday with the benchmark BSE sensex rising over 550 points led by gains in banking and metal stocks.
The 30-share BSE index rose 558 points or 1.15 per cent higher to close at 48,944; while the broader NSE Nifty settled 168 points or 1.16 per cent higher at 14,653.
Top gainers in the sensex pack included L&T, Bajaj Finance, SBI, IndusInd Bank, Reliance, HDFC Bank and Bharti Airtel with their shares rising as much as 3.53 per cent.
While Maruti, NTPC, Nestle India and Kotak Bank were the major losers falling up to 1.28 per cent.
Nifty at lifetime high.
New Delhi: Sensex created history on Thursday, by hiting the 50,000-mark for the first time ever in early trade amidst recover hopes, a day afer Joe Biden s swearing in. Healthy buying was witnessed in auto and telecom stocks. A positive trend in the global markets also supported the indices on Thursday.
At 11.16 am, the BSE Sensex was trading 343.60 points or 0.69 percent higher at 50,135.72. Similarly, the NSE Nifty jumped 96.90 points or 0.66 percent to 14,741.60.
Major gainers in the Sensex pack were Bajaj Finserve, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Auto, Axis Bank, RIL, HUL, ICICI Bank, Asian Paint, Indusind bank, M&M, Ultrachem, and Titan, rising upto 3.26 percent. On the other hand, major losers were HDFC Bank, TCS, Tech Mahindra, HDFC, ONGC, SBI, Sun Pharma and Powergrid, falling upto 1.32 percent.