Nifty ends at 9,100; Sensesx closes high led by banking stocks

The key benchmark indices on its closing Friday settled higher led by  gains in banking stocks following news reports that the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced to offer a solution to the growing non-performing assets  crisis in next few days.
The BSE Sensex ended at 29,421.40, up 89.24 points, while the broader Nifty50 settled at 9,108, up 21.70 points. Both the indices registered  their first weekly loss in March, retreating from a record high attained last week.
In the broader market, the BSE Midcap ended 0.1% down, while the BSE Smallcap index gained 0.3%.  On the BSE, 1471 shares declined against  1,346 advancing shares and a total of 218 shares were unchanged.
Bank stocks advanced. ICICI Bank rose 3.28%, Kotak Mahindra Bank rose 1.2%, Axis Bank up 0.49% among others.

Sensex closes up 164 points, Nifty 0.62% higher on recovery in global markets

BSE Sensex closed higher by 164 points, or 0.56%, to 29,332, while the NSE Nifty rose 55.85 points to 9,086.30. Sensex rose today tracking a recovery in global markets with energy shares leading the gains, whereas financial and auto shares bounced back. Key indexes had on Wednesday clocked their highest intraday loss in over 2 months, boosted by a slump on the Wall Street due to a lack of clarity in Trump’s economic policies. U.S shares picked up on Wednesday while Asian stocks rose on Thursday, taking signals from gains on Wall Street.

Share price of NTPC finished on an cheerful note, up 2.3%, after the company reported seeking to buy the federal government's stake in hydro-power producer SJVN Ltd. to increase the share of non-fossil fuel generation capacity.

Share price of Cairn India surged 2.7% after the government approved a policy for extending the term of more than two dozen oil & gas production contracts signed in a bid to bolster energy security. The move is expected to obtain an additional investment of about USD 5.43 billion.

The rupee was trading at Rs 65.42 against the US Dollar in the afternoon session. Oil prices were trading at US Dollar 48.35 at evening.

Sensex closes down 318 points, Nifty 1% lower on concern over Trump’s policies

Sensex dropped for a third consecutive session on Wednesday as banking and automobile shares fell. Asian stocks fell as worries on Donald Trump’s economic growth agenda provoked investors to dump risky assets looking for safe havens such as government bonds. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.3%.
On closing, the barometer index, the BSE Sensex, lost 317.77 points or 1.08% at 29,167.68, while the Nifty 50 index was down 91.05 points or 1% at 9,030.45. Stocks in the metal and banking sectors had rose up to a high extent. About 990 shares advanced, 1822 shares declined and about 194 shares remained unchanged.
Auto stocks lost traction with M&M Ltd and Tata Motors falling 2% and 1.4%, respectively, to pull down the NSE index. Bharti Airtel was among the top losers on both the NSE and BSE indices, dipping nearly 3%.