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Sensex Closes 40 Points Higher, Nifty Settles At 10,530: 10 Things To Know
06 Nov 2018, 03:40 PM IST 
Diwali 2018: BSE will conduct a special trading session on Wednesday on account of the Diwali festival
- Twenty three stocks on the 50-scrip index finished the day higher.
- Top gainers on the 50-scrip index Nifty included Yes Bank, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Sun Pharma, closing between 1.4 per cent and 2.2 per cent higher.
- Market breadth favoured the rise in markets, with 856 stocks on the NSE finishing higher, against the same number of shares closing lower. On the BSE, 1,284 stocks advanced and 1,274 declined.
- Besides TCS, gains in Infibeam - which finished nearly 11 per cent higher - contributed to a 0.7 per cent rise in the Nifty IT index.
- Tata Motors shares ended 1.3 per cent higher, after hitting a four-week high during the session. The spike in Tata Motors shares came after data from a UK auto trade association showed a surge in Jaguar registrations in October.
- GAIL (India) extended gains into a third session, to finish 0.8 per cent higher, a day after the state-run gas utility reported a 50 per cent jump in net profit for the July-September period.
- Shares in miner Vedanta, which traded ex-dividend, finished 1.1 per cent higher.
- On the other hand, shares in PSU banking major State Bank of India (SBI) ended 2.9 per cent lower, while those of private-sector lender Axis Bank fell 2.7 per cent.
- The domestic markets tracked gains in Asian peers, which were supported by gains on Wall Street although the trading sentiment was tempered ahead of the US midterm elections. That would mark the first major electoral test of US President Donald Trump's big tax cuts and hostile trade policies since assuming office.
- Stock exchange BSE will conduct a special trading session on Wednesday on account of the Diwali festival. Trading will commence at 5:30 pm and end at 6:30 pm, the bourse has said.
(With agency inputs)
