September 14, 2023 / 07:30 AM IST

Market on Wednesday: 

After a muted earlier session, the bulls had been again in motion on September 13, serving to benchmark indices inch nearer to their report highs led by steel, oil & gasoline and banking names.

At shut, the Sensex was up 245.86 factors or 0.37 p.c at 67,466.99, and the Nifty was up 76.80 factors or 0.38 p.c at 20,070.

Amid combined world cues, the market began with marginal minimize and stayed in a spread. However, mid-session shopping for helped indices to show optimistic to finish close to day’s excessive, with Nifty closes above 20,000 for the primary time.

Grasim Industries, Coal India, Bharti Airtel, Tata Consumer Products and Titan Company had been among the many main gainers on the Nifty, whereas losers included HDFC Life, Jio Financial, L&T, M&M and Adani Ports.

Among sectors, steel and oil & gasoline had been up one p.c every and PSU Bank index gained 4 p.c, whereas capital items, auto and Information Technology indices ended on a unfavourable notice.

The BSE midcap index recovered 500 factors from the day’s low and ended flat, whereas Smallcap index added 0.8 p.c.