Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Sensex sluggish in morning trade

MUMBAI: A benchmark index for Indian equities was sluggish in morning trade on Thursday and was 37 points lower about an hour into trade.

At 9.57am, the 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 17,013.68 points, was ruling at 16,962.64 points, 37.37 points or 0.22 percent lower than its previous close at 17,000.01 points.

At the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the broader 50-share S&P CNX Nifty was ruling at 5,067.3 points against the previous close at 5,088.1 points, a loss of 0.41 percent.

Broader markets, however, saw some buying interest with the BSE midcap index ruling 0.58 percent higher and the BSE small cap index 0.47 percent up.

TOI

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