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MARKET LIVE | Markets | Dalmia Bharat

SI Reporter  | New Delhi 

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The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai
The Indian were were trading half a per cent higher but off the day's top on Monday, lifted by pharma and bank stocks.

The S&P BSE Sensex was up 220 points and was marginally below the 35,000 level. The Nifty50 index was hovering over 10,300-mark. Bajaj twins (Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance) both shot up 5 per cent each and were the top Sensex gainers. Besides, IndusInd Bank and Bajaj Auto also rose over 2 per cent each. Reliance Industries climbed another 2 per cent and hit $150 billion m-capitalistaion. 

Among other stocks, Glenmark Pharmaceutials surged 40 per cent to Rs 572.70 after it became the first Indian company to secure drug regulator’s nod on manufacturing and marketing the antiviral drug, Favipiravir in India. READ MORE

Meanwhile, Reliance Industries (RIL) hit a fresh all-time high of Rs 1,804, up 2.5 per cent, on the BSE on Monday, having surged 12 per cent in the past three trading sessions as the company become net debt-free ahead of its March 2021 deadline. READ MORE

The trend among Nifty sectoral indices was all green, except the Nifty IT index, led by Nifty Pharma index, up 1.8 per cent.

Broader indices outperformed the benchmarks and both the S&P BSE MidCap index as well as the SmallCap index were trading 1 per cent higher each.
 
Results today

On the results front, a total of 61 companies including Dhanlaxmi Bank and AIA Engineering, are scheduled to announce their March quarter earnings.

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