On Wednesday, benchmark equity indices climbed with the Nifty hitting its fresh record high level and Sensex climbing nearly 600 points.
Buying in IT stocks also propelled the rally in the markets. The NSE Nifty went up by 177.1 points or 0.76 % to hit its new all-time high of 23,441.95 during the late morning trade.
The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 593.94 points or 0.77 % to 77,050.53. The BSE benchmark is just 28.51 points away from breaching its previous lifetime peak of 77,079.04 hit on Monday.
Among the 30 Sensex companies, Power Grid, Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, HDFC Bank, Tata Steel, State Bank of India, Bajaj Finance, Wipro, Tata Motors and Reliance Industries were the major gainers.
Hindustan Unilever, Titan, Asian Paints and Mahindra & Mahindra were the laggards. In Asian markets, Seoul and Shanghai traded in the positive territory while Tokyo and Hong Kong quoted lower.
US markets ended mostly higher on Tuesday. V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist, Geojit Financial Services said, ‘The 32 percent decline in India VIX during the last 5 days indicates that the days of heightened volatility are over and the market has entered a consolidation phase. From now on the focus will be on fundamentals and news flows’.
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