Among sectoral indices, the Nifty Bank index rose 1.24 per cent led by a rise in the shares of Axis Bank, YES Bank and Punjab National Bank.
VIP Industries hit a new high of Rs 538, rallying 200% in past one year from Rs 179 on August 2, 2017 as compared to 15% rise in the S&P BSE Sensex.
The stock dipped 9% to Rs 302 on the BSE in intra-day deal, trading close to its 52-week low of Rs 297 touched on July 19, 2018.
The stock rallied 44% in past two trading sessions from Rs 2,250 to Rs 3,240 on Friday in intra-day trade after Venky's India was excluded from the ASM list with effect from Thursday.
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TCI Express, Sical Logistics, Patel Integrated Logistics, Allcargo Logistics, Transport Corporation of India and VRL Logistics were up in the range of 2% to 8% on the BSE.
The stock hit a 52-week high of Rs 1,652, up 8% on the BSE.
The stock was 4% at Rs 1,225 on the BSE after the company said that its board will consider a share buyback proposal on Tuesday, August 7, 2018.
The result of the previous quarter includes the impact of the goods and services tax (GST), unlike in the same quarter year ago.
Within the emerging markets, Wood finds Pakistan's equity market attractive and plans to add more stocks from the country in his portfolio going ahead.
At present, the central bank's total gold holding is 561.9 tonnes
Healthy earnings trajectory for next three years keeps the Street positive
In Q1, advances and net interest income grew 9.4% and 28.7%, y-o-y, respectively
Commodity outlook by Bhavik Patel - Sr. Technical Analyst (Commodities) at Tradebulls Securities
Nifty outlook and few trading ideas by Vaishali Parekh, Research Analyst - Technical Research at Prabhudas Lilladher
Pain at the core-gross level also percolated to the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda)
Market participants expect this volatility to continue in the near- to medium-term amid weak global cues
Nifty, Bank Nifty, Sun Pharma, Tata Steel and Bharti Airtel
L&T has time till September 2019 to bring down its stake to at least 75%
Shares of several companies put on the ASM list had tumbled amid an unwinding of speculative positions