Sensex up 442 points; Nifty advances by 123 points

March 30, 2015 02:51 pm | Updated April 02, 2016 01:03 pm IST - Mumbai

A man walks past the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai September 21, 2010. The BSE Sensex shot past 20,000 points on Tuesday for the first time in 32 months, boosted by rising foreign fund investments in the rapidly expanding economy. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS)

A man walks past the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai September 21, 2010. The BSE Sensex shot past 20,000 points on Tuesday for the first time in 32 months, boosted by rising foreign fund investments in the rapidly expanding economy. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS)

A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), made healthy gains in the late-afternoon trade session on Monday. It was trading up 442 points or 1.61 per cent.

The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) also made healthy gains during the late-afternoon trade session. It was trading up 122.90 points or 1.47 per cent up at 8,464.30 points.

The Sensex of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 27,655.79 points, was trading at 27,900.28 points (2.00 p.m.) in the late-afternoon trade session, up 441.64 points or 1.61 per cent from the previous day’s close at 27,458.64 points.

The Sensex touched a high of 27,900.53 points and a low of 27,624.76 points in the trade so far.

All sector-based indices of the BSE were trade in the green. Healthy buying was observed in capital goods, banks, automobile, healthcare and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and metal sectors.

The S&P BSE capital goods index gained by 386.47 points, bank index rose by 295.55 points, automobile index went higher by 193.58 points, healthcare index climbed 169.22 points, FMCG increased by 162.22 points and metal index was up 143.88 points.

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