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Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: The key stock indices concluded the day higher than where they started. The BSE Sensex gained 847.27 points, or 1.18%, to close at 72,568.45, while the NSE Nifty 50 closed 247.35 points, or 1.14%, higher at 21,894.55. The large- and mid-cap stocks drove the advances in the broader indices as they closed higher. At 47,709.80, the Bank Nifty index closed 0.57% or 271.45 points higher.
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Infosys, Tech Mahindra, LTIMindtree, ONGC, and TCS were the top gainers during the later hours in the Nifty 50. While HDFC Life, Apollo Hospitals, Cipla, Ultratech Cement, and Power Grid were the top losers in the Nifty 50.
Shares in the Asia-Pacific region are trading in positive territory on Friday morning. The Asia Dow is trading up by 1.84%, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is green, up by 1.80%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index is trading up by 1.27% and the benchmark Chinese index Shanghai Composite is trading higher by 0.31%.
The US Dollar Index (DXY), which measures the value of the dollar against a basket of six foreign currencies, traded down by 0.05% at 102.24.
Wall Street saw a volatile session, with stocks down and bonds whipsawing after hotter-than-anticipated inflation data tempered bets on a Federal Reserve rate cut in March, Bloomberg reported. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 17.11 points or 0.11% at 14,952.54. The S&P 500 dipped by 2.93 points or 0.06% at 4,780.52, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended flat.
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