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At close, the Sensex was up 151.81 points or 0.28% at 54554.66, and the Nifty was up 21.80 points or 0.13% at 16280.10 after falling from record-high levels on Tuesday. Kotak Mahindra Bank, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), Titan Company, Bajaj Finance, M&M, State Bank of India (SBI), IndusInd Bank were top Sensex gainers. Power Grid Corporation of India, Nestle India, Bajaj-Auto, HUL, ITC were top index losers. About 679 shares have advanced, 2401 shares declined, and 98 shares are unchanged. Barring the Nifty FMCG index, all the sectoral indices were trading in the green. Bank Nifty was up 0.58 percent at 36,238.80. Nifty Financial Services index gained 0.7 percent. The BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices bled 1 percent and 2 percent, respectively.

Shares of L&T Technology Services (LTTS) zoomed 19 percent to a record high of Rs 3,471.95 on the BSE in intra-day trade on Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected June quarter (Q1FY22) results. The company's net profit surged 84 percent year-on-year in the June quarter as its profit came in at ₹ 117.3 crores in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. The technology services company's revenue from operations during the quarter stood at ₹ 1,518 crores, compared to ₹ 1,294.7 crores in the year-ago period, marking a growth of 17 percent annually, according to a regulatory filing by the firm to the stock exchanges. The company said that it could expand the margins because of levers like higher digitalization, he said adding that the quantum of work done offshore has also increased to 58 percent of the billing as against 50 percent before the pandemic. Read more

Shares of information technology majors, including Infosys, TCS, HCL Tech, Wipro and Tech Mahindra, traded with gains on BSE on December 18 morning hitting their respective record highs after Ireland-based Accenture reported better-than-expected results for the quarter ending November 30. The Nifty IT index hit a record high of 23,408, up 2 per cent on the NSE in intraday trade. Accenture reported strong earnings and revenue growth, revised upwards revenue growth forecast for the full fiscal year of 2021 to 4 – 6 per cent from an earlier estimate of 2 – 5 per cent. Accenture's revenue for the quarter, at $11.8 billion and up 4 per cent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis was well above its guidance and street’s estimate. Infosys gained 3 per cent at Rs 1,193 and TCS rose 2 per cent to Rs 2,894., Larsen & Toubro Infotech, HCL Technologies, Wipro and Tech Mahindra from the Nifty IT index were up in the range of 1 per cent to 3 per cent. Read more