INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sensex, Nifty at Record Highs: global markets consolidated from previous sessions' losses.Dalal Street opened at record highs on Thursday
and how! Tracking recovery of stocks and commodities in global markets, the SP BSE Sensex hit a fresh record high, rising by 212.85 points
or 0.59 per cent to trade at 36,478.78 and the Nifty50 index surged 64.15 points or 0.59 per cent to reclaim the 11,000 level as it traded
Earlier, at 09:12 am, the Nifty futures on SGX indicated a higher opening for the domestic market as they traded 30.50 points or 0.28 per
Major gainers in the 30-share Sensex pack in the early session were Asian Paints (+1.48 per cent), Reliance Industries (+1.27 per cent),
Kotak Mahindra Bank (+1.18 per cent), SBI (+1.08 per cent), Coal India (+1.04 per cent) and Induslnd Bank (+1.00 per cent)
Top laggards in the Sensex pack at the same time were TCS (-0.29 per cent), ITC (0.16 per cent), Mahindra Mahindra (0.39 per cent) and ONGC
(-1.36 per cent).(IOC, Hindustan Petroleum, BPCL, Dr Reddy, HCL Tech were leading the pack of Nifty gainers in early trade.)Hindustan
Petroleum (+4.19 per cent), IOC (+4.01 per cent), BPCL (+3.87 per cent), Dr Reddy's (+2.85 per cent) and HCL Tech (+2.13 per cent) led the
pack of Nifty gainers while the main losers on the index in the morning session were Bharti Infratel (-2.73 per cent), TCS (-0.63 per cent),
GAIL (0.34 per cent), Infosys (-0.29 per cent) and Wipro (-0.26 per cent).Meanwhile, global markets consolidated from previous sessions'
Fears of an escalation in the US-China trade war nudged investor's sentiments on Wednesday
China's Shanghai Composite Exchange traded at 2,830.44, up 52.67 points or 1.90 per cent while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up at
28,512.87 level, with a gain of 201.18 points or 0.71 per cent.In commodities markets, Brent crude futures rose 1.35 per cent to $74.38 a
barrel after tanking 6.9 per cent overnight, the biggest one-day percentage drop since February 2016.On Wednesday, domestic stock markets
swung between gains and losses all through the trading session and ended marginally higher
The SP BSE Sensex settled at 36,265.93, while the broader Nifty50 closed at 10,948.30.
