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Equities markets start 'New Year' on positive note
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SME Times News Bureau | 24 Oct, 2014
Samavat 2071, marking the start of the New Year, began on a positive
note for Indian equities at a special trading session on Diwali day
Thursday with a key index gaining some 63 points, or 0.24 percent.
The
markets had closed Wednesday with the sensitive index (Sensex) of the
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) logging the best annual gain in five years
of 26.1 percent.
Thursday saw this bellwether index of 30 shares
close at 26,851.05 points, as against the day's opening at 26,889.51
points and previous close at 26,787.23 points, data with the BSE after
the one-hour special "muhurat" session showed.
Another
closely-watched index, the 50-share Nifty of the National Stock Exchange
also gained 0.23 percent Thursday, ending the day at 8,014.55 points
during a similar session.
During the past year, the Sensex had
touched a record high of 27,254.99 points Sep 8, mainly on the back of
the positive sentiments generated by the clear mandate for the perceived
business-friendly Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) in the national elections earlier this year.
The mid-cap and small-cap stocks, too, had performed well.
Investments by foreign funds in Indian equities amounted to nearly $17 billion in Samvat 2070.
During
Thursday's special trading session, all the 12 sector-specific indices
of the BSE ended higher, so did the small-cap and mid-cap indices.
The
top five scrips among the Sensex shares were Bajaj Auto, up 1.59
percent, Hindalco, up 0.81 percent, ONGC, up 0.80 percent, Reliance
Industries, up 0.70 percent and Dr. Reddy'a, up 0.56 percent.
Top
five losers were Wipro, down 3.82 percent, BHEL, down 0.99 percent,
Tata Motors, 0.47 percent, Maruti, down 0.46 percent and SSTl, 0.32
percent.
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Customs Exchange Rates |
Currency |
Import |
Export |
US Dollar
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66.20
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64.50 |
UK Pound
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87.50
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84.65 |
Euro
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78.25
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75.65 |
Japanese
Yen |
58.85 |
56.85 |
As on 13 Aug, 2022 |
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