Sensex, Nifty Opens At New Record Highs; HDFC Life Sheds 1.69%

On marginal gains on the SGX Nifty, Indian benchmark indices made a positive start, opening at record new highs. Sensex topped new highs of 44902.2, while Nifty tops 13215 levels.

Sensex, Nifty Opens At New Record Highs; HDFC Life Sheds 1.69%

Nettle Infrastructure Investment bought one lot each of 6.65 crore equity shares of Bharti Infratel on the BSE and NSE at Rs 215.5 per share. However, Edgepoint Global Growth & Income Portfolio sold 1,81,10,429 equity shares of the company at Rs 215.59 per shar and Edgepoint Global Portfolio 3,12,08,860 equity shares at same price on the NSE, while P 5 Asia Holding Investments Mauritius sold 7,70,80,000 equity shares at Rs 215.44 per share on the BSE. The shares in the company in early trade was higher by

Wipro bagged a multi-year deal from Verifone for its cloud services and was up by 1.09 percent.

Shares in HDFC Life as reports suggest that Standard Life will sell up to 2.78 crore equity shares of the company to raise up to Rs 1,770 crore.

In today's deal, PSU stocks are again in focus with GAIL again as the top gainer, Balmer Lawrie up 9 percent, Coal India also gaining in trade today.

Meanwhile, Asian markets at the time of writing this copy was trading firm with Nikkei up 0.02 percent.

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