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Hi there! You are listening to ETMarkets Evening Podcast.
This is Abhinav Kaul, with today's stock trading digest and what seasoned analysts have to offer.
Stock benchmarks eked out measly gains today as trade clouds swirled over the market.
Reports about likely US air strikes in Syria upped the uncertainty level.
The close marked the fifth straight session of gains for stocks.
The Nifty50 settled higher by 0.14 per cent at 10,417 and the Sensex at 33,940, a jump of 60 points.
TCS was the big hitter in the Sensex team, up 3 per cent.
As many as 18 stocks went up.
Metal scrips such as Vedanta, Nalco and Hindalco had spring in their step after the US imposed sanction on Russian aluminium giant Rusal.
SBI and PNB ended the day with a fall of up to 3 per cent.
Let's listen in to what A K Prabhakar of IDBI Capital Markets has to say on fundamentals.
Byte 1: A K Prabhakar
Mahanagar Gas logged the biggest jump in open interest at 190.62 per cent.
BPCL (52.76 per cent) and IRB Infrastructure Developers (42.02 per cent) came next.
Nirav Chheda of Nirmal Bang Securities dwells on technicals and the FO market.
Byte 2: Nirav Chheda
That’s all for now folks.
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