Market update: Sensex gains 500 points, Nifty above 9,300


Published On: Monday, April 27, 2020 | By:

Market update: Sensex gains 500 points, Nifty above 9,300

Today (27th April) buying across the table especially in index heavyweights Reliance Industries and HDFC drove the Indian markets higher, in line with the Asian indices. The S&P BSE Sensex jumped 554 points, or 1.77 percent, to 31,880. The Nifty50 index surpassed 9,300 levels. Among individual stocks, Reliance Industries and HDFC were both up 2 percent each while IndusInd Bank was up 3 percent. Mindtree rose as much as 7.5 percent in early deals after declaring its March quarter results. All the Nifty sectoral indices were in the green, led by the Nifty IT index, up 2 percent. IndusInd Bank and Ambuja Cements are scheduled to announce their March quarter results today. Asian shares inched higher in today's early trade. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.1 percent in early trade. Japan’s Nikkei and South Korea's Kospi both gained over 1 percent each. Incommodities, Brent crude futures firmed 45 cents to $21.89 a barrel.

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