Sensex closed above 29,900, Nifty above 9300; Metal Stocks lead

The benchmark BSE Sensex closed flat on Tuesday since investors booked profits with the largest outperformers like ACC Ltd, Ambuja Cements while banks removed gains from the previous session’s rally. Caution also surrounded ahead of the quarterly earnings announcement, with Bharti Airtel later in the day. Asian shares were passive as investors looking forward to the next catalyst after France’s presidential election.  
BSE Sensex closed higher 7.10 points at 29,933.25 while  NSE Nifty closed higher by 2.8 points at 9316.85 on closing.   Both the  Nifty and Sensex were trading flat all through the day. Indiabulls Housing Finance, Hero Motocorp and Lupin Ltd were the major contributors to Nifty losses.  BSE Midcap closed higher by 0.19% at 14,821, and  Small-cap closed higher by 0.53% at 15,544.
 The companies which announced their financial earnings today were Syndicate bank, Dena Bank,  Vijaya Bank,  SREI Infrastructure Finance and Godrej Consumer Products, among others.
The stocks of metal sector Tata Steel, Vedanta Ltd, Hindalco  and Jindal Steel were sizzling on the Exchanges. The realty stocks like DLF, HDIL and Unitech were trading in positive terrain all though the day.
Tech Mahindra, Axis Bank, Wipro, IOC and Adani Ports were the top Nifty gainers of the day, while  Wipro, GAIL, Tata Motors, M&M and Bajaj Auto were the top Sensex gainers.

Today's Stock Market Overview

At the end of the weekly trading session, market is showing its mix nature of being bullish and bearish too Sensex is hovering around 26,894 points and Nifty gained 4 points to 8222. Having a sight on Asian market, Japan's benchmark Index Nikkei topped with rise in 79 points to 16,642, Shanghai Composite fell down in the morning session but managed to balance and drifted up to trade positive with 12 points to 2,938. Axis Bank, M&M, Bajaj Auto, HUL, Hero Motocorp are the top gainers while Lupin, Bharti Airtel, BHEL, SBI and Sun Pharma are top losers trading negative today.

Idea Cellular, India's third largest telecom company stocks slumps around 10 percent today. Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners to sell about half of its stakes in Idea which amounts to be Rs 14 crore.

In Commodity Market, Gold is trading steady with 14 rupees up to Rs 28,877 per ten grams while Silver hiked up by Rs 169 to Rs 38,697. Natural Gas and Crude oil being positive are trading on Rs 163 and Rs 3317 respectively.