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Nifty up by 18.7 points

Pivotal prices firmed up on renewed buying support from foreign institutional investors and bull operators in the National Stock Exchange today.

The NSE-50 index opened steady at 1009.30 points, touched day's high of 1029.75 points, low of 1006.80 points before closing at 1028.40 points showing a net gain of 18.70 points as against its previous close of 1009.70 points. The Dollar NSE-50 (Defty) index finished at 909.15 points over the last trading day's close of 891.35 points gaining 17.80 points.

The Midcap index settled at 1144.15 points as compared to yesterday's close of 1136.05 points increased by 8.10 points. The total turnover on the exchange was Rs 11.4 billion involving 42.1 million shares.

Top gainers were Hindustan Lever, Ponds, Grasim, BSES, Bajaj Auto and losers were TVS Suzuki, Arvind Mills, IPCL, Thermax and Ashok Leyland.

Hectic trading led by ITC with Rs 4 billion turnover followed by RIL Rs 1.5 billion, Tata Tea Rs 1.3 billion, SBI-N Rs 946.1 million, Hind Lever Rs 701.4 million, Castrol Rs 607.2 million, P&G Rs 319.6 million, MTNL Rs 305.5 million, Bajaj Auto Rs 226.1 million, Colgate Rs 169.5 million, Corp Bank Rs 161.5 million, ACC Rs 158.3 million, TELCO Rs 129.1 million, BHEL Rs 115.6 million, TISCO Rs 115 million, BSES Rs 50.3 million, Ponds Rs 41.5 million, Wartdeisel Rs 31.9 million, SmithK Bech Rs 29.9 million, L&T Rs 29.2 million, LML Rs 23.5 million, IOC Rs 21.8 million, BPCL Rs 20.9 million, ICICI Rs 20.4 million and Mahindra and Mahindra Rs 15.8 million.

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