BSE: MUHURAT OPTIMISM

The traditional muhurat trading session for Vikram Samvat 2076 carried out on the auspicious Diwali Evening on Sunday October 27 turned out to be a normal one and in line with its past performance. Both the benchmark indices, the Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the Nifty-50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) ended with marginal gains. The Sensex gained 192.14 points (0.49 per cent) to close at 39,250.20, while Nifty was up 43.25 points (0.37 per cent) to close the session at 11,627.15. With the exception of BSE Telecom and BSE Consumer Durables indices, all the mainstream and sectoral indices ended the session in green. This is the ninth time that the benchmark index has closed in green on the muhurat trading day in since 2007. Only in 2007, 2012, 2016 and 2017, the index has ended in red marginally. The immediate day following muhurat trading session being observed as a...