Sensex hits new record high, pares gain on profit-booking

In volatile trade, the benchmark Sensex today came off new life-time high of 25,711.11 hit in morning trade but managed to end with a slim 3.48-point rise at a fresh closing peak of 25,583.69 helped by rise in IT and pharma shares.
Tracking firm Asian trends, the BSE Sensex resumed strong and immediately improved further to a high of 25,711.11- a new historic intra-day high. This was on the back of sustained buying by foreign funds and retail investors after Narendra Modi-led government yesterday promised investor-friendly reforms and measures to revive country's economic growth.
Sensex, however, later succumbed to selling pressure to hit day's low of 25,347.33 on growing fears over monsoon. It later saw some recovery to end at a fresh closing peak of 25,583.69, up 3.48 points or 0.01 per cent.

"In first half, profit taking in interest rate sensitive sectors kept the index under pressure; however, recovering in IT and Pharma space helped it to pare losses significantly by the end," said Jayant Manglik, President-retail distribution, Religare Securities.
This was its fourth successive positive closing. The gauge had gained nearly 775 points in the previous three days.
Yesterday, the 30-share index had hit previous lifetime high of 25,644.77 and ended at record closing of 25,580.21.

Similarly, the 50-issue NSE Nifty edged up by 1.80 points, or 0.02 per cent, to register its an all-time high of 7,656.40. It hit an intra-trade life-time high of 7,683.20.

Shares from consumer durable, IT, teck and pharma sectors closed with gains while from realty, refinery, capital goods, power and metal finished with losses.
Cautious stance ahead of retail inflation for May and April factory output played on investor minds, say traders.
Bluechips like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HDFC, Tata Motors, Sun Pharma, Cipla, Bharti Airtel, Dr Reddy's, HUL, Coal India and Maruti Suzuki were in demand. ONGC, SBI, L&T, Tata Steel, Axis Bank, RIL and Hero Moto suffered losses, among others.
Meanwhile, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) bought shares worth a net Rs 536.68 crore yesterday, as per provisional data from the stock exchanges.