The Sensex struck a positive note on Wednesday in the beginning on continued foreign inflows ahead of the expected hike in US interest rates. However, caution prevailed after retail inflation rose to 4-month high of 3.65% in February and that of wholesale prices shot up to a 39-month high of 6.55%.

The Sensex had soared 540.69 points in the previous three sessions following the BJP's landslide win in UP and Uttarakhand. The 30-share index was trading higher by 26.22 points, or 0.08%, at 29,468.85.

Shares of leading private sector lenders such as YES Bank, IndusInd Bank, HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank and automobile stocks like Maruti Suzuki India, Eicher Motors, Bajaj Auto, Hero MotoCorp boost the Nifty50 index to hit a record high on Tuesday in intra-day trade.

These stocks, along with Reliance Industries (RIL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), Zee Entertainment, Tata Steel, Grasim Industries, Power Grid Corporation and Gail (India) have rallied more than 25% each from their March 4, 2015 levels.

To align the periodic price band mechanism with the new graded surveillance measures (GSM) framework, BSE has decided to do away with weekly and monthly price limits for securities listed on its platform.

The stock exchange will phase out the weekly price bands from March 20 and the monthly price bands from April 3 for companies that attract such periodic price limits.

Riding on exit polls that predict the BJP emerging as the single largest party in UP and coming to power in Uttarakhand, the BSE Sensex climbed over 146 points in opening trade on Friday on heavy fund inflows.

Moreover, industrial production (IIP) data for January, scheduled to be released after market hours on Friday, also influenced sentiments. All the sectoral indices led by consumer durables, IT, metal, realty, bank, capital goods and auto sectors were trading in the positive zone with gains of up to 0.73%.

Mumbai: Shares of BSE Ltd, Asia’s oldest stock exchange, on Friday extended its losses for the seventh consecutive session. The stock corrected nearly 17% from its listing day.

In intraday, the stock touched a low of Rs 888.10 a share and fell as much as 3.2% on the NSE.

Sensex, on Thursday, opened at 29132.58, higher than yesterday's close at 28,984.49. It was up by over 148.09 points a few minutes into trading.

The Nifty, which had closed at 8,945.80 points climbed 41.90 points 8,987.70.

The Sensex left its two days of losses behind by recovering 230 points in early session on Wednesday, propped up by fresh buying triggered by positive GDP data for the December quarter amid favourable Asian cues.

The impact was such that even the broader NSE Nifty took back the 8,900-mark. The 30-share index, which had lost 149.65 points in the previous two sessions, was trading higher by 229.56 points, or 0.80%, at 28,972.88. All sectoral indices, led by realty, bank and metal, moved up, with gains of up to 1.29%.

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has started a special audit of 15 brokers who allegedly got unfair access to the algorithmic trading systems at the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) to determine the extent of unlawful gains they may have made, according to three people with direct knowledge of the development.

These brokers have been named in an earlier Sebi investigation and also a forensic audit done by Deloitte India for NSE. It comes at a time when NSE has launched disciplinary proceedings against one of the 15, OPG Securities Pvt. Ltd. Mint is refraining from naming the other 14 since disciplinary proceedings haven’t been launched against them yet.

The BSE Sensex recovered about 51 points and the NSE Nifty scaled the 8,900-mark in early trade today as investors took to buying ahead of GDP data scheduled to be released later in the day amid firm global cues.

The 30-share index was trading higher by 50.53 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 28,863.41 with the sectoral indices led by consumer durables, capital goods, healthcare, metal, auto and banking trading higher by up to 0.58 per cent.

The Sensex slumped over 80 points to 28,813 on Monday as the March derivatives series began on a subdued note, mirroring a weak trend in the Asian market.

Profit-booking at prevailing levels weighed.

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