Market settles with modest gains amid volatility, Nifty ends at 10,070

Trading for the weekend finished on a positive note with the indices settling with modest gains after a volatile and range bound session of trade. The BSE Sensex gained 87.53 points or 0.27% at 32,325.41, while the NSE Nifty index rose 52.75 points or 0.53% at 10,066.40.  Caution continued in global stocks ahead of US nonfarm payroll data for July, which falls presentation later in the global day.
The BSE MidCap rose 0.66 percent outperforming the Sensex, whereas the BSE SmallCap index gained 0.1 percent, underperforming the Sensex.  About 1385 shares declined and 1,200 shares advanced and a total of 173 shares were unchanged on BSE.
Buzzing stocks are - IOC surged 9%, overtaking ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bharti Airtel and Bharti Airtel.  Mahindra & Mahindra declined 0.2 percent after its net profit fell 9 percent to Rs 859 crore on 3.74 percent rise in gross revenue to Rs 23,212 crore in first quarter June 2017 y-o-y.

Sensex ends 131 pts lower, Nifty below 9200

The benchmark indices settled the trading Monday on a negative note  with the BSE Sensex was going down 130.87 points at 29,575.74, while the NSE Nifty down 16.85 points at 9,181.45. About 1,764 shares rose against a fall of 1,163 shares, while 128 shares were unchanged. The BSE Mid-Cap index declined 0.08 per cent, while the BSE Small-Cap index advanced 0.63 per cent, outperforming the Sensex.
The IT stocks suffered losses on the Exchanges. Both the Sensex and Nifty hit more than seven days  low in intraday trade. Indices dipped for the third consecutive day today, 10 April 2017.
Tata Motors, Axis Bank, BPCL and IOC were top gainers, while Wipr, Infosys and Indiabulls were top losers.
IT stocks dropped in sluggish market. TCS went down 0.7%, Tech Mahindra Ltd down 0.5%, Wipro down 2.1% and HCL Technologies declined 1.89%.
Liquor stocks were lagging behind after the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan  had said that liquor stocks will be closed across states in a phased manner.