Mumbai: Stock markets seems to have been swept off by the festive spirit. Heavy buying by retail investors and mutual funds led markets soaring at new heights. Markets continued the uptrend and ended higher for second day of the week on the back of broad based buying seen in scrips across sectors.
Banking stocks led the rally followed by IT and auto stocks.
The Sensex closed up 151.35 points at 13859.69, and the Nifty up 33.75 points at 3974.25.
The BSE Small Cap Index closed at 6,839.36 up 33.80 points or 0.5 per cent. The BSE Midcap Index ended at 5,744.10 up 46 points or 0.8 per cent.
The BSE Bankex was up 1.9 per cent at 7,080.55. IOB, Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank, Allahabad Bank, ICICI Bank moved upwards.
The BSE Capital Goods Index was up 0.1 per cent at 9,043.47. KEC Infrastruct, Bharat Elec, Greaves Cotton, Crompton Greave, Praj Industries closed higher.
The BSE Health Care Index was up 1 per cent at 3,822.65. Divis Labs, Ipca Labs, Cadila Health, Lupin, Biocon closed higher. The BSE Oil and Gas Index gained 0.7 per cent to close at 6,237.00. GAIL, IOC, BPCL, Reliance, HPCL ended in green
The BSE Auto Index closed at 5,493.00 up 1.1 per cent. Sundaram-Clayto, Punj Tractors, Bharat Forge, Tube Investment, Sundram and Tata Motors ended higher
The BSE Metal Index was up 0.3 per cent to close at 5,289.03. Mah Seamless, Welspun Guj, Tata Steel, SAIL, Hindalco closed in green.
The BSE IT Index gained 1.8 per cent at 5,289.03. Hexaware Tech, I-Flex Solution, Satyam, Wipro Infosys advanced.
The BSE FMCG Index gained 0.4 per cent at 1,942.71. Colgate, ITC, United Spirits, Britannia ended in green.
The NSE cash turnover was at Rs 7071.35 crore and the NSE F&O turnover was at Rs 40561.25 crore. The BSE cash turnover was Rs 3648.01 crore. Total market wide turnover was at Rs 51280.61 crore.
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