BSE sensex

Equity benchmark Sensex added another 139 points on Monday, marking third straight session of gains, as encouraging start of the earnings season by IT major TCS boosted investors’ sentiment.

Equity benchmarks closed in the green for the second straight session Friday as investors looked forward to the earnings season with measured optimism amid an uncertain global growth environment.

Benchmark equity indices ended marginally higher after choppy trade Thursday as voting began in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections. The 30-share BSE Sensex inched up 21.66 points, or 0.06 per cent

Market benchmark BSE Sensex cracked about 354 points Wednesday, led by a sudden sell-off in HDFC and HDFC Bank in the later half of the session. The 30-share Sensex index lost 353.87 points

Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty were hit by volatility and registered losses on Monday as investors turned cautious ahead of the start of corporate earnings season and polling for the general elections.

The BSE Sensex ended 178 points higher Friday led by gains in metal, realty and IT stocks amid positive cues from the global markets on optimism over the US-China trade talks.

Markets nursed losses for the second straight session Thursday after the RBI slashed the interest rate but lowered the GDP growth forecast for 2019-20 and kept its monetary policy stance ‘neutral’ amid uncertainty over monsoon.

Halting its three-day winning run, the rupee plunged 76 paise Thursday to close at 69.17 against the US dollar after the RBI cut the interest rate but kept its monetary policy stance ‘neutral’.

Sensex turned choppy after the RBI announced lowering of the key lending rate for commercial banks by 25 bps to 6 per cent, in its first monetary policy meet of the new fiscal year.

Rising for the fourth session in a row, the BSE benchmark Sensex added another 185 points to hit an all-time closing high of 39,056 and the NSE Nifty closed above the key 11,700-level on intense buying mainly in auto