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Chennai, India (BBN) – The Sensex and Nifty were trading marginally higher owing to lack of directional cues from global markets.
At 10:10am, the 30-share BSE index Sensex was up 55.01 points or 0.18 per cent at 31,164.29 and the 50-share NSE index Nifty was up 15.4 points or 0.16 per cent at 9,620.30, reports The Hindu Business Line.
Among BSE sectoral indices, healthcare index was the star-perfomer and was up 1.71 per cent, followed by banking 0.52 per cent, auto 0.22 per cent and oil & gas 0.07 per cent. On the other hand, power index fell the most by 1.14 per cent, capital goods 1.06 per cent, consumer durables 0.92 per cent and FMCG 0.74 per cent.
Top five Sensex gainers were ICICI Bank (+2.78%), Lupin (+2.31%), NTPC (+2.24%), Dr Reddy’s (+2.11%) and Cipla (+1.81%), while the major losers were Coal India (-2.00%), Power Grid (-1.92%), HUL (-1.12%), TCS (-1.07%) and ITC (-1.06%).
Brokers said emergence of profit-booking by investors in recent gainers at record levels amid continued foreign fund outflows and muted earnings posted by some blue-chip companies mainly pulled down the key indices from their peaks.
Yesterday, the Sensex had closed at a fresh lifetime peak of 31,109.28 after climbing to a new intra-day record high of 31,214.39. The Nifty had closed at an all-time high of 9,604.90 after recording a new intra-day peak of 9,637.75 in yesterday’s trade.
Meanwhile, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) sold shares worth Rs. 709.97 crore, while domestic institutional investors (DIIs) bought shares to the tune of Rs. 290.53 crore yesterday, as per provisional data from the stock exchanges.
ASIAN SHARES
The euro came under pressure on Tuesday after a media report that Greece may forego its next bailout payment if creditors cannot strike a debt relief deal, while Asian stocks were shackled by holidays in some regional markets and the United States and UK.
The common currency slid 0.2 per cent to $1.1136 in its third session of declines after a German press report Athens may opt out of its next bailout payment.
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