Mumbai | 9 days ago
Sensex closes flat; healthcare stocks gain
Mumbai, May 14 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets closed flat Tuesday, a day after it plummeted to its lowest levels since May last year.The benchmark index had closed Monday's trade 2.14 percent or 430.65 points down on profit-booking, weak global cues and widening of trade deficit to $17.78 billion from $14.04 billion in March last year.On Tuesday, there was healthy buying in hea ... read more

Mumbai | 10 days ago
Sensex down two percent on profit booking
Mumbai, May 13 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets Monday closed 2.14 percent down on profit-booking and weak global cues.The index had breached the 20,000-mark last week.There was heavy selling pressure in the healthcare, bank and consumer durables stocks. However, information technology - scrips rose.The 30-scrip sensitive index - of the Bombay Stock Exchange -, which opened in th ... read more

Mumbai | 13 days ago
Sensex closes nearly one percent up; auto, bank stocks gain
Mumbai, May 10 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets Friday closed nearly one percent up, on the back of positive global cues and positive industrial production data.The sentiments were bullish on the back of positive government data which showed India's industrial output grew by 2.5 percent in March 2013.There was a healthy buying spree in stocks like automobile, bank, consumer durab ... read more

Mumbai | 14 days ago
Sensex snaps gaining streak, ends lower
Mumbai, May 9 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets Thursday closed 0.26 percent down, breaking a three days of consecutive gains to close below the 20,000-level mark, as traders booked profits ahead of the crucial industrial production and inflation data expected soon.The 30-scrip sensitive index - of the Bombay Stock Exchange - which crossed the psychological mark of 20,000 points ... read more

Mumbai | 15 days ago
Sensex crosses 20,000-mark, first time since Jan 31
Mumbai, May 8 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets Wednesday crossed the 20,000-level-mark for the first time in more than three months on the back of sustained buying from foreign institutional investors - and positive global cues.The 30-scrip sensitive index - of the Bombay Stock Exchange - crossed the psychological mark in the late trading session before closing below the 20,000- ... read more

Mumbai | 16 days ago
Sensex ends Tuesday's trade one percent higher
Mumbai, May 7 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets closed Tuesday's trade over one percent up and touched its highest level in the last three months.Trading sentiments were buoyed by positive international cues on the back of gains made by Japan's Nikkei which closed 3.55 percent higher and a renewed buying spree by foreign institutional investors -.Stocks like bank, healthcare and f ... read more

Mumbai | 27 days ago
Sensex closes half a percent down; bank, oil and gas stocks plummet
Mumbai, April 26 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets Friday closed more than half a percent down, snapping four days of gains, after banks, oil and gas and technology stocks tanked.The 30-scrip sensitive index - of the Bombay Stock Exchange - closed at 19,286.72 points, down 0.62 percent or 120.13 points from its previous day's close at 19,406.85 points, mostly due to profit booking ... read more

Mumbai | 28 days ago
Sensex rallies 227 points; interest sensitive stocks gain
Mumbai, April 25 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets Thursday closed more than one percent up after interest-sensitive stocks like automobile, banks stocks rallied on expectation of an interest rate cut by central bank early next month.The 30-scrip sensitive index - of the Bombay Stock Exchange -, which opened at 19,192.11 points, closed the day's trade at 19,406.85 points in the la ... read more

Mumbai | 1 month ago
Sensex closes flat; interest sensitive stocks plummet
Mumbai, April 23 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets ended flat in Tuesday's trade after capital goods, consumer durables and bank stocks plummeted.The 30-scrip sensitive index - of the Bombay Stock Exchange -, which opened in the red at 19,210.26 points, closed at 19,179.36 points, up 0.05 percent or 9.53 points from its previous day's close at 19,169.83 points.The Sensex touched a ... read more

Mumbai | 1 month ago
Sensex closes 153 points up; interest sensitive stocks rise
Mumbai, April 22 - A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets closed 153 points up Monday on the back of good buying support in interest-sensitive stocks like banking, capital goods and consumer durables, on hopes of a rate cut by the central bank next month.The 30-scrip sensitive index - of the Bombay Stock Exchange -, which opened in the negative at 18,989.78 points, closed at 19,169.83 po ... read more