Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Cheering the Modi government's recent economic reforms and the US Federal Reserve's move on low interest rate, the Indian markets on Friday open to a new high with the Sensex up 147 points to 27,493.59 while the Nifty breached the 8,200-mark for the first time ever.
Markets opened strongly on Friday, gaining for the fourth day, following Thursday's record-high closing of 27,346.33.
Nifty also opened strongly gaining over 50 points to hit the 8,200-mark for the first time ever in opening trade.
Infosys and HDFC were the top Sensex gainers rising over 1 percent each. Shares of Maruti Suzuki also rose over 1 percent in trade.
However, shares of lndia's leading private bank, ICICI was down 0.6 percent pull down by bad loans of the company despite a quarterly profit that beat expectations.
Unitech, Bharti Airtel, Suzlon Energy and IDFC were among the top traded stocks on the NSE.
Meanwhile, the rupee snapped its four-day falling streak and rose by eight paise to 61.37 against the US dollar in early trade today on sustained foreign capital inflows amidst a higher opening in the domestic equity market.
