Sensex outshines global peers, gains 1300 points in 6 days

Bulls have been taken over charge as against bears for the sixth consecutive session on Tuesday, with the Sensex adding nearly 1300 points by outperforming its global peers in these six days - supported by strong inflow of foreign institutional investors.

March 29, 2011 / 17:12 IST
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Bulls have been taken full charge of Dalal street for the sixth consecutive session with the Sensex adding nearly 1300 points by outperforming its global peers- supported by strong inflow of foreign institutional investors. About 27 frontline shares out of 30 shares on the Sensex led the market higher.

"India's valuations have come to reasonable levels post the correction and we are currently buyers of Indian stocks.  Many mid and small cap stocks have turned very attractive", says Mark Mobius of Templeton Asset Management. According to him, the top three concerns for India are unemployment, inflation and water but India is amongst the top pick in the EM basket. The 50-share NSE Nifty rallied 49.10 points or 0.86%, to close at 5,736.35, after hitting an intra-day high of 5,770.35. The 30-share BSE Sensex went up 177.66 points or 0.94%, to settle at 19,120.8.
Index

Closing Value

% Change

Sensex

19120.8

7.19

Nifty

5736.35

6.93

Shanghai

2958.43

1.69

Hang Seng

23060.36

1.65

Nikkei

9459.08

2.74

Straits Times

3056.95

2.46

Kospi

2072.13

3.43

Taiwan

8596.57

1.52

FTSE*

5890.94

1.81

CAC*

3955.73

1.31

DAX*

6893.83

1.14

Dow Jones**

12197.88

1.34

* Tuesday's value at 15:30 hours

** Monday's closing value

"I would like to see a penetration of 5,800 level, then we have the possibility of touching 6,000 and that might signify a renewed uptrend," Louise Yamada, MD of Louise Yamada Technical Research Advisors said. However, she feels that the little downtrend that
first published: Mar 29, 2011 04:04 pm

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