Last hour buying in banking, healthcare and auto stocks lifted the key equity indices after a largely choppy trade on Friday.\u00a0Broadly positive European markets also supported the Indian indices, analysts said.<\/p>\n
At 3.30 p.m., the wider Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) provisionally closed at 10,821.85 points, up 80.75 points or 0.75 per cent from the previous close of 10,741.10 points.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had opened at 35,428.42 points, closed (3.30 p.m.) at 35,689.60 points (3.30 p.m.) — up 257.21 points or 0.73 per cent — from its previous session’s close of 35,432.39 points.<\/p>\n
The Sensex touched an intra-day high of 35,741.26 and a low of 35,344.49 points. The BSE market breadth, however, was bearish with 1,411 declines and 1,167 advances.<\/p>\n
The top gainers on the Sensex were Sun Pharma, Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M), HDFC, Axis Bank and State Bank of India whereas Reliance Industries, Wipro, Coal India, Tata Consultancy Services and ONGC were the major losers.<\/p>\n
On the NSE, Sun Pharma, Bajaj Pharma and M&M were the highest gainers while Reliance Industries, Hindustan Petroleum and UPL lost the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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