NSE CEO Ashish Chauhan on June 5 said the stock exchanged created a world record in terms of number of transactions in a single day.
"@nseindia handled the highest ever - world record - number of transactions in a single day today on June 5,2024 in a 6 hours and 15 minutes (915 am to 330 pm) single trading day- 1971 crore (19.71 billion) orders per day. 28.55 crore (280.55 million) trades per day," said Chauhan on X platform (formerly Twitter).
The NSE Nifty 50 index ended 3.4 percent higher at 22,620.35 points.
The Nifty saw its best percentage gain since Feb 1, 2021, when union budget-related announcements drove the market up nearly 5%.
PM Modi is expected to be sworn-in for a rare third term on June 8, after the Telugu Desam Party and Janata Dal (United) pledged their continued support a day after a humbling election verdict saw BJP lose its majority in parliament.
The benchmark indexes closed nearly 6 percent lower on Tuesday, recording its worst session since March 2020.
Heavyweight bank stocksK surged 4.5 percent, while the financial services index jumped 4.2 percent. Both the indexes dropped nearly 8 percent on Tuesday.
The Nifty Volatility Index, a gauge for domestic market volatility, fell to its lowest since May 27 at 18.66.
Meanwhile, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) sold a record Rs 12,436 crore worth of Indian shares on Tuesday, provisional data from the National Stock Exchange showed, reported Reuters.
With inputs from Reuters
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