Hi friends! You are listening to ETMarkets Evening Podcast.

This is Abhinav Kaul, getting you an overview of today's trading, plus deep insights from top-notch market analysts.

Stock market hit an air pocket today, but recovered just in time to end higher -- for the second day running.

Private banks, financials and auto shares did the rescue act.

It was a 166-point rise for the Sensex to settle at 34,617.The Nifty climbed 30 points to 10,614.

In the Sensex group, 18 stocks rose.

Reliance Industries was up 3.70 per cent and led the pack of Sensex gainers, buoyed by reports that Reliance Jio added highest monthly users in a year.

Bharti Airtel erased early losses and closed up ahead of its March quarter results.

Aluminium stocks Nalco and Hindalco plunged more than 7 per cent, in line with a fall in global aluminium prices.

The US extended the deadline for firms to wind up business with the sanctions-hit Russian producer Rusal.

Let's listen in to what A K Prabhakar of IDBI Capital Markets has to say on fundamentals.

Byte 1: A K Prabhakar

ICICI Prudential Life witnessed the biggest spike in open interest at 52.38 per cent. Piramal Enterprises (43.73 per cent) and Motherson Sumi (43 per cent) came in next.

Chandan Taparia of Motilal Oswal Financial Services will tell us more on technicals and F&O.

Byte 2: Chandan Taparia

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