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This is Abhinav Kaul and I will take you through the motions of today’s session on Dalal Street and bring you cues and trading tips from market veterans for upcoming trading sessions.

Snapping a two-day losing streak, the domestic equity market ended in the positive territory on Thursday amid heavy buying in FMCG, pharma and banking stocks.

Although, the benchmark indices kept oscillating between the positive and negative zones during the session, buying in last hour helped bulls to bounce back.

Sensex added 194 points to settle at 33,246.70 with Dr Reddy's being the top gainer and TCS the worst laggard.

Shares of Ruchi Soya tumbled over 10 per cent after it informed bourses that IDBI Bank has declared it a wilful defaulter.

Pharma stocks made sharp advances in today's trade, which saw Nifty Pharma pack gain 0.76 per cent to 9,070.85 with 7 out of 10 constituents ending in the green. Cipla, Dr Reddy's and Cadila Healthcare climbed over 2 per cent.

Sanjiv Bhasin of India Infoline sums up the day’s market proceeding for you in this exclusive chat with ETMarkets.com.

Byte 1: Sanjiv Bhasin

Shares of Berger Paints witnessed the biggest spike in open interest at 34.06 per cent, followed by Tata Communications and TCS.

Nirav Chheda of Nirmal Bang Securities gives you a lowdown on the F&O market.

Byte 2: Nirav Chheda

The Nifty50 gained 59 points to end at 10,252 with 40 out of 50 components ending in the green. The index formed a bullish hammer on daily charts.

We have with us Milan Vaishnav of Gemstone Equity Research and Advisory to give us some insights on Nifty behaviour on the charts.

Byte 3: Milan Vaishnav

That’s all for now folks. Do check out ETMarkets.com for detailed market analysis and come back for our regular market podcast on Friday morning. Have a wonderful evening ahead.