Sensex Provisionally Closes 49 Points up


MUMBAI: Investor anxiety ahead of the monetary policy review led a barometer index of the Indian equity markets to provisionally close the day's trade flat on Monday.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) closed with gains of only 49 points.

The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) also provisionally closed flat during the day's trade. It inched-up by 4.75 points or 0.06 percent at 8,537.60 points.

The S&P BSE Sensex, which opened at 28,089.09 points, provisionally closed at 28,163.41 points (3.30 p.m.), up 48.85 points or 0.17 percent from the previous day's close at 28,114.56 points.

The Sensex touched a high of 28,263.35 points and a low of 28,071.37 points in the intra-day trade.

Source: IANS