On a weekly basis, both the frontline indices snapped their 3-week losing streak and added around 2 per cent higher each
Sensex ended close to the day's low at 48,782, down 984 points with only five constituents in the green. Meanwhile, its NSE counterpart Nifty declined 264 points to shut shop at 14,631
The BSE barometer Sensex gyrated 840 points to end the day at 49,767 up 32 points. The index had surpassed 50,000 mark in intra-day session and touched day's high at 50,375
Among key sectoral indices, robust global demand lifted the Nifty Metal index to record peak of 4,869 on the NSE today
The BSE flagship index Sensex ignored a weak set of global cues and risks arising from Covid-19's second wave to surge 790 points to 49,734
CLSA opines that the surge in Covid cases in Maharashtra may taper in May as the state is in its fourth-month of the second wave. This, it believes, will be positive for the markets
BSE Sensex settled close to day's high at 558, up 48,944 points amid across the board buying. It had touched an intra-day high of 49,009
Hindalco, L&T, Tata Steel, Divis Labs, Reliance Industries, Bajaj Finance, and SBI were the top gainers on the 50-share pack
Shares of Vedanta jumped 3.84% on the BSE amid a report by PTI that Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami has allowed the company to operate its Tuticorin plant to produce oxygen
Investors booked profit in the pharma counters after a healthy rally over the past week. The index settled 0.87 per cent down.
BSE Sensex settled the day 202 points down at 47,878, dragged lower by the weakness in ICICI Bank, Infosys, HUL and HDFC Bank
The overall market breadth remained in the favour of the bulls, courtesy rally in the broader markets
Sensex ended the session at 48,081, up 375 points, mainly led by strength in the banking and financial counters
From a low of 30,555 hit earlier in the day, the Nifty Bank index ended at 31,783, up 2.15 per cent
BSE barometer Sensex dropped over 1,000 points from day's high to hit a low of 47,438 in the intra-day trade
The broader markets, however, managed to duck the bear onslaught and supported the overall market breadth
Sensex index quoted 47,949 levels, down 883 points while the Nifty50 was at 14,359 levels, down 258 points
The Nifty Pharma index was the only index that ended in thee green, up 0.17 per cent
For the week, both Sensex and Nifty have slipped 1.5 per cent each
Wipro, which jumped 10 per cent in the intra-day trade and hit a record high of Rs 474 on the NSE, ended as the top gainer on the Nifty after clocking its best performance in Q4 in a decade