Highest ever closing for Sensex

Mumbai: After a quiet trading session the markets closed on historic high. It was highest ever closing for Sensex and Nifty.

The benchmark index Sensex closed the last trading day of the week at another new high of 13,130.79 on the Bombay Stock Exchange on sustained buying by foreign as well as domestic mutual funds.

The BSE-30 share Sensex, which had gained 58.08 points on Thursday, surged to hit a new intra-day high of 13,146.86 points. It later settled 39.67 points up at 13,130.79 on the back of significant rise in heavyweight stocks of oil, energy, cement, steel, PSUs, pharma and sectors.

In similar manners, the wide-based Nifty index on National Stock Exchange ended 14.15 points up at 3,805.35 after rising to 3,809.65 earlier in the day.

PSU oil major, ONGC stocks maintained its upward march on fund-based buying, triggered by favourable corporate reports and gathered another Rs 38.75, or 4.62 per cent at Rs 877.70.

It touched a high of Rs 884.80 earlier in the day.

Top losers on the Sensex were Tata Motors down 2 per cent, TCS down 1.4 per cent and Hindalco down 1.37 per cent.

Top losers on the Nifty were HCL Tech down 2.73 per cent and MTNL down 2.07 per cent.

Index heavyweight Hindustan Lever was trading at Rs 235.90 down 0.69 per cent from its previous close of Rs 237.55.

Index heavyweight Reliance was trading at Rs 1,276.45 down 0.56 per cent from its previous close of Rs 1,283.60.

Tech major Infosys was trading at Rs 2,061.85 down 1.11 per cent from its previous close of Rs 2,084.90.

Cigarette major ITC was trading at Rs 186.70 down 1.01 per cent from its previous close of Rs 188.60. Refinery major HPCL was trading at Rs 332.50 up 0.14 per cent from it.