Bulls were back in action on Dalal Street on June 20, as the Indian benchmark indices snapped three day losing streak helping Nifty to comfortably close above 25,100 mark amid buying across the sectors.
At close, the Sensex was up 1,046.30 points or 1.29 percent at 82,408.17, and the Nifty was up 319.15 points or 1.29 percent at 25,112.40. BSE Midcap index rose 1.2 percent and Smallcap index gained 0.5 percent.
For the week, BSE Sensex and Nifty50 indices rose 1.6 percent each.
Jio Financial, Mahindra and Mahindra, Bharti Airtel, Bharat Electronics, Trent were among top gainers on the Nifty, while losers included Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto, Maruti Suzuki, Dr Reddy's Laboratories.
All the sectoral indices ended in the green, with metal, PSU Bank, realty, power, telecom, capital goods up 1-2 percent.
Kaynes Tech shares added nearly 4% after the firm launched QIP to raise up to Rs 1,600 crore, Northern Arc Capital shares were down 2 percent as stock worth Rs 440 crore exchanged in block deal, Sun TV Network shares fell 1% amid legal dispute over shareholding between Maran brothers, Sai Life Sciences shares added 7 percent after 10% equity changes hands and Axiscades Technologies shares hit 52-week high on partnership with European firm.
80 stocks on the BSE touched their 52-week highs, including Hyundai Motor, ITD Cementation, Axiscades Technologies, MCX India, Bharti Airtel, Aditya Birla Capital, Bharat Electronics, Authum Investment, among others.
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