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NSE up 5.6 points

Pivotal prices recovered marginally on renewed buying support from financial institutional in a brisk trading on the National Stock Exchange today.

The NSE-50 index openmed at 1207.20 points, touched day's high of 1218.95 points, low of 1207.20 points and closed at 1212.75 points, showing a net gain of 5.6 points as against the previous close of 1207.15 points. The Dollar NSE-50 index finished at 1058.75 points over the last working day's close of 1054.80 points gaining 3.95 points.

The Midcap index settled down at 1698.85 points as compared to previous close of 1653.70 points increasing 45.15 points. The total turnover on the nse was Rs 16.2 billion involving 72.4 million shares in 240,335 trades.

About 233 securities have hit their prices bands.

Glaxo rose to Rs 451.05 from Rs 410.15, Asian Paint moved up to Rs 355.40 from Rs 326.25, TVS Suzuki to Rs 625.85 from Rs 575.75, Nestle to Rs 438.90 from Rs 411.65 and Thermax to Rs 269.45 from Rs 257.35.

Among losers were BPCL, down to Rs 402.20 from Rs 414.15, Ranbaxy declined to Rs 724.75 from Rs 743.80, GE Shipping drifted lower to Rs 44.15 from Rs 45.30, IndoGulf to Rs 44.60 from Rs 43.35 and Ind Hotel decreased to Rs 540.90 from Rs 549.15.

Hectic trading was wintessed at ITC (Rs 3.8 billion), Glaxo (Rs 1.1 billion), SBI-N (Rs 1.1 billion), RIL (Rs 1.1 billion), Castrol (Rs 906.6 million), Hind Lever (Rs 839.1 million), Tata Tea (Rs 796 million), ACC (Rs 479 million), Tisco (Rs 282.3 million), Telco (Rs 251.5 million), ICICI (Rs 235.4 million), Sterlite (Rs 218 million), Infosys Tech (Rs 176.3 million) counters.

Good transactions were observed at BHEL (Rs 176.1 million), Wart Diesel (Rs 174.4 million), BSES (Rs 159.2 million), Corp Bank (Rs 149.9 million), L and T (Rs 134.2 million), LML (Rs 131.3 million), MTNL (Rs 125.1 million), ABB (Rs 122.8 million), Bajaj Auto (Rs 119.9 million), Digital (Rs 115.1 million), Ipca Lab (Rs 112.4 million) Thomas Cook (Rs 109.2 million).

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