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Sensex gains 36 points

The rebounding of stock markets in south-east and east Asia and the smart rally by pivotals at the Bombay Stock Exchange aided the sensex to recover moderately on Tuesday.

The BSE-30 sensitive index opened at 3,427.15 points as against the previous 3395.04. It showed a high of 3,479.95 and a low of 3417.05 points before ending at 3,431.72 points, exhibiting a net gain of 36.68 points.

Market sources said a prominent foreign institutional investor off-loaded 1,00,000 shares of Hindustan Lever. Domestic institutions and retail brokerages made good purchases, pushing the sensex up.

The BSE-100 index gained 14.09 points to end at 1493.03 points as against the previous close of 1478.94.

The BSE-200 index was up by 2.95 points to 335.32, while the dollex index firmed by 0.98 points to close at 139.95.

The total turnover on the Bolt network was Rs 10.42 billion. Of the 6,871 scrips registered, 1,489 were traded. The total volume of trade was 41.5 million.

ITC topped the turnover list with Rs 3.22 billion followed by Tata Tea (Rs 1.43 billion), SBI (Rs 1.20 billion), Reliance (Rs 877.7 million) and Castrol (655.6 million).

Hectic activity was witnessed at HIL (Rs 411.1 million), MTNL (Rs 379.8 million), Tisco (Rs 189.4 million), Telco (Rs 187.1 million), L&T (Rs 168.6 million), BPL (Rs 117.6 million), Glaxo (Rs 95.6 million), ACC (Rs 83.4 million), BHEL (Rs 81.1 million ) and Bajaj Auto (Rs 71.5 million).

Good transactions were observed at Corporation (Rs 114.1 million), Crisil (Rs 60.3 million), Infosys (Rs 25.5 million), Raasi Cement (Rs 22.1 million) and NIIT (Rs 20.6 million).

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