Indices gain for 6th straight day, Sensex ends 246 points higher
Extending their gaining streak into the sixth straight session, benchmark indices ended with over half a per cent gains on Friday even as global peers tumbled after China’s GDP growth slipped to a 27-year low of 6 per cent.
Industry heavyweights Reliance Industries (RIL), HDFC Bank, TCS, and Larsen & Toubro (L&T) helped benchmark S&P BSE Sensex settle at 39,298 levels, up 246 points or 0.63 per cent. The 30-share index hit an intra-day and low of 39,361 and 38,964, respectively.
YES Bank (up over 8 per cent) emerged as the top gainer on the index while Tata Motors (down 1 per cent) the biggest loser.
In the broader market, both mid and small-caps outperformed the headline indices. The S&P BSE MidCap index added 253 points or 1.78 per cent to close at 14,420 while the S&P BSE SmallCap index ended at 13,127, up 213 points or 1.65 per cent.
On the NSE, the broader Nifty50 index gained 75.50 points or 0.65 per cent to close at 11,662 levels.
On a weekly basis, both Sensex and Nifty ended with 3 per cent gains.
On the sectoral front, barring Nifty IT, all the other indices ended in the green. Relaty stocks advanced the most, followed by metal and PSU bank stocks. The Nifty Realty index climbed nearly 2 per cent to 262.80 levels.
Reliance Industries (RIL), the oil-to-telecom behemoth, on Friday hit another milestone as the market capitalisation (m-cap) of the company breached the coveted Rs 9 trillion-mark, the first by any Indian company. The stock hit a high of Rs 1,428 during the session. At the time of writing of this report, the m-cap of the company stood at Rs 9,00,507 crore. At close, the stock stood at Rs. 1,415 apiece on the BSE, up over 1 per cent. The m-cap of the company was 8,97,179.47 crore.
Shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) surged 27 per cent to Rs 56.45 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in the intra-day deals on Friday amid reports the government may look to reduce stake in the company. The stock recorded its sharpest intra-day rally in more than a decade. The stock ended at Rs 54, up 22.22 per cent.
Shares of Reliance Industries (RIL), Hindustan Unilever (HUL), Bajaj Finance and Nestle India from the Nifty 50 index hit their respective all-time high on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in intra-day deal on Friday.
Avenue Supermarts, which runs the DMart chain of stores, Adani Green Energy, Berger Paints, Blue Star, Indraprastha Gas, Manappuram Finance, SBI Life Insurance, Siemens and Whirlpool of India among total 16 stocks from the Nifty 500 index that also reached their record high in intra-day trade today.
Shares of Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL) slipped 9 per cent to Rs 240 in the intra-day deal on the BSE on Friday after the company reported lower-than-expected consolidated net profit for July-September quarterly (Q2) as it provided for an inter-corporate deposit (ICD) worth Rs 171 crore during the period.
Shares of Adani Enterprises were trading higher for the fifth straight day, up 7 per cent to Rs 174 on the BSE in the intra-day deals on Friday after the company set up a subsidiary company named Adani Metro Transport (AMTL) to focus on metro rail projects.
Shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), Hindustan Copper, MMTC and The New India Assurance Company surged more than 11 per cent, while MOIL, NBCC (India), NLC India, General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re), National Aluminium Company, Steel Authority of India (SAIL), IFCI and Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) jumped in the range of 5-10 per cent on the BSE.
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