Hindalco, L&T, Tata Steel, Divis Labs, Reliance Industries, Bajaj Finance, and SBI were the top gainers on the 50-share pack
Investors booked profit in the pharma counters after a healthy rally over the past week. The index settled 0.87 per cent down.
The overall market breadth remained in the favour of the bulls, courtesy rally in the broader markets
Benchmark indices drop 3% before settling 1.8% lower, amid Covid-19 surge, new restrictions
Barring shares of Dr Reddy's Labs, all constituents of the 30-pack index traded in the red
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
Sensex gains 0.94%; Bank Nifty rises 1.5%
The valuation of TCS jumped Rs 36,158.22 crore to reach Rs 11,71,082.67 crore
All the sectoral indices ended the day in the red with the Nifty Realty, Metal, and PSU Bank indices dropping up to 3 per cent
The Nifty ended Friday's session at 15,031, a fall of 144 points or 0.95 per cent
DIPAM, in December, had invited EoI for strategic disinvestment of its entire stake of 63.75 per cent in Shipping Corp of India
The Maggi noodles maker is expected to post double-digit revenue growth in its profit after tax (PAT) for the fourth quarter of the financial year 2020
FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced Rs 1.18 trillion-financial allocation for the highways sector in Budget 2021. However, any delay in roll out of such growth-driven projects may wear-off the bull-run
Weightage-wise, Infosys (up 3 per cent), Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank, M&M, and TCS contributed around 408-points towards overall gains on the index
The broader markets, however, came under selling pressure. The S&P BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices ended 0.93 per cent and 0.28 per cent lower, respectively
Robust buying in shares of ITC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India, Bajaj Finance, ICICI Bank, and M&M helped the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex scale fresh lifetime peak of 50,687.51 level
The Nifty Pharma index edged up 3 per cent, followed by gains in the Nifty PSB index (up 2.3 per cent), and the Nifty Pruvate Bank index (up 2 per cent)
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The Sensex index reclaimed the 50,000 level in intra-day deals and hit a high of 50,154
SBI, the top gainer among the Sensex stocks, was up 8 per cent to Rs 337 at 02:25 pm, surpassing its previous high of Rs 332 touched on February 2, 2020