Indian benchmark indices surged on the last trading session of the expiry month of April series of derivatives contracts. For whole trading session, Sensex and Nifty remained positive and in last hour of the day they surged and registered more than 1% gain as traders squared off the short positions on the settlement day. Nifty closed at 5916.30 up by 79.40 points from previous close recording 1.36% gain, while Sensex closed at 19406.85 rising by 227.49 points up by 1.19%.
All the sectoral indices participated in the rally while only technology and realty sector closed in the red. Among sectoral indices, CNX Auto was the major gainer by 2.66% followed by CNX Pharma (2.40%), CNX Media (2.36%), CNX Finance (1.86%) and CNX Energy (1.66%). CNX IT (-1.58%) and CNX Realty (-0.45%) are the only sector that closed negative.
Shares of power companies continued to remain in limelight as sentiment turned bullish after the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) cleared 13 power projects.
Market breadth remained positive for the NSE today as 523 stocks gained against 455 declined and 44 remained unchanged.
Out of 50 stocks of Nifty index, 37 advanced and 13 declined.
Top Five Nifty gainers: Top gainers on the Nifty are HDFC (5.64%), NTPC (4.29%), Dr. Reddys (4.23%), Tata Motors (3.91%) and Hero Moto Corp (3.90%).
Top Five Nifty Losers: IT and realty stocks were top loser today and list includes HCL Technologies (2.29%), TCS (2.07), DLF (1.98%), JP Associates (1.72%) and Infosys (1.29%).
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