Oil & gas, capital good, metal and banking stocks continue to be in the limelight today. Broader markets have also participated in the uptrend but the frontliners outperformed the midcap and smallcap indices. BSE Midcap index was up over 2% and the smallcap index was up over 2.4%.
ICICI Bank surged over 9%, Wipro and Hindalco were up over 7% followed by HDFC, HDFC Bank, Bharti Airtel, Rel Petro and PNB.
Sensex was up 893.58 points or 4.69% at 19929.06, and the Nifty up 242.50 points or 4.26% at 5937.90.
About 2135 shares have advanced, 852 shares declined, and 78 shares are unchanged.
The BSE Midcap Index ended at 8,285.63 up 2%.
The BSE Smallcap Index ended at 10,039.38 up 2.4%.
The BSE Bankex was up 7.2%. Top gainers were HDFC Bank up 11.3%, ICICI Bank up 8.9%, PNB up 9.7% followed by SBI, BOB, HDFC Bank, Union Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra, Andhra Bank, Bank of India moved upwards.
The BSE Capital Goods Index was up 1% at 20,386.41. Siemens, Areva T&D, Kirloskar Oil, Bharat Bijlee, Triveni Engg closed higher.
The BSE Auto Index closed at 5,423.10 up 0.6%. Hind Motors, MICO, TVS Motor, Maruti Suzuki, Cummins closed higher.
The BSE Metal Index closed was up 4.2%. Among the top gainers were Nalco up 13.7%, Hindalco up 7.3%, SAIL up 6% Jindal Steel, JindalStainless, Tata Steel, SAIL, Hind Zinc closed higher.
The BSE FMCG Index closed at 2,062.04 up 1.2%. United Spirits, GlaxoSmith Con, ITC, Dabur India, Marico, ITC, Bata India closed higher.
BSE Oil and Gas Index closed up 7%. Heavies like Reliance up 7.2%, ONGC up 4.7% followed by Reliance Natura, Essar Oil, Reliance Petro, Petronet LNG ended higher.
The BSE IT Index was at 4,634.64 up 0.4%. Wipro, Satyam, Infosys, Financial Tech, TCS closed higher.
BSE Realty Index was up 3.1%; Unitech up 2.5%, Indiabulls Real up 7.5%.
The NSE cash turnover was at Rs 20698.46 crore and the NSE F&O turnover was at Rs 68270.99 crore. The BSE cash turnover was Rs 8791.8 crore. Total market wide turnover was at Rs 97761.25 crore.