Market Live: Nifty
breaks May jinx, starts series at 10,700; RIL crosses Rs 1K mark
Equities have begun
the day on a good note, with the Sensex rising over 100 points, while the Nifty
managed to open above 10,650-mark.
The Sensex is up
143.63 points at 34857.23, while the Nifty is up 56.20 points at 10674.00. The
market breadth is positive as 333 shares advanced, against a decline of 171
shares declined, while 54 shares were unchanged.
Among stocks, Axis
Bank took a hit of 3 percent in the first few minutes, after the bank reported
dismal set of numbers for the March quarter as provisions trebled. Meanwhile,
IDBI Bank is also trading lower by 4 percent after its ex-CMD has been booked
in a fraud case.
Meanwhile, global
markets were trading higher on the back of positive handover from US.
Asian shares edged
higher on Friday, after US equities were buoyed by solid quarterly earnings and
a rebound in technology stocks, while the euro languished near three-month lows
after the European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged.
US stocks advanced on
Thursday with each of Wall Street’s major indexes ending the session up 1
percent or higher, boosted by solid earnings results and a rebound in
technology stocks as U.S. bond yields pulled back.
The Indian rupee opened lower by 8 paise at
66.83 per dollar on Friday versus previous close 66.75.
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