In the sectoral front, buying was seen across Teck index (up by 1.98%) followed by IT (up 1.90%), Metal (1.49%) and Bankex (1.48%). Additionally, the Realty, Consumer Durables and Auto space also gained 1.35%, 1.33% and 1.15% respectively, contributing to the upsurge.
Both the Nifty and Sensex traded firmly throughout the session and finally ended with more than 1% gains each. On Monday, the U.S. markets closed lower as The Nasdaq Composite led the downfall as participants dumped semiconductor stock and other tech related issues.
Among the Sensex pack, all the 13 sectors ended in positive. The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 2992, shares advanced were 1802 while 1073 shares declined and 117 were unchanged.
The BSE Sensex was at 18,439.65 higher by 216.98 points or by 1.19% and then NSE Nifty was at 5520.80 up by 57.65 points or by 1.06%. The BSE Midcap was at 6,562.05 higher by 62.90 points or by 0.97%, while the BSE SmallCap was at 7,944.85 up by 59.99 points or by 0.76%. The BSE Sensex touched intraday high of 18,466.81 and intraday low of 18,266.62.
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 334.20,+3.16%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 1160.05,+2.91%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 271.55,+2.90%), Infosys Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 3114.65,+2.53%), and also shyam advisory (Rs. 84.25,+2.37%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Hero Honda Motors Ltd. (Rs. 1518.15,-0.77%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 1256.50,-0.65%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 171.95,-0.35%), Tata Power Company Ltd. (Rs. 1229.85,-0.04%), among others.
On the macroeconomic front, Consumers will have a respite over the ever rising prices of diesel, as the prices will not go up for some time now, with the State elections around the corner in mid May. The main reason for not increasing the prices is that, they have already been revised a lot of times before, to curb inflation. Another round of price hike might be risky for the Government, keeping in mind the forth coming elections.
Additionally, the Indian Power Ministry is planning to add 15,000 MW of power capacity by fiscal end after adding 10,460 MW of capacity till date since April 2010.
On the global markets front, the major indices in Asia closed on a positive note. The Hang Seng, Straits Times, Seoul Composite, Taiwan weighted, Nikkei 225 and Shanghai Composite inclined by 1.71% at 23,711.70, 1.22% at 3,103.84, 0.81% at 1,996.32, 0.39% at 8,747.75, 0.19% at 10,525.19 and 0.15% at 3,000.57 respectively.
European markets, which opened after the Indian market were trading on a positive note. Key benchmark indices like – CAC 40 was trading higher by 0.06% at 3,992.93 and in Frankfurt, DAX index was trading up by 0.25% at 7,179.68. Meanwhile, FTSE 100 slipped by 0.06% at 5,970.01.
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