Bharti Airtel, Hindalco, ITC, L&T Up, Sensex Crossed 19,000 Milestone

SensexPost-opening at 18,776, the BSE Sensex reached many different levels during the entire day. Earlier, the figure touched a day's high of 19,045 and even a day's low of 18,767 but at 3.05 p. m. (IST), the BSE Sensex showed the maximum up thereby reaching to the figure of 19,041 i. e. 314 points, up from its last close, reason behind being the constant buying binge in the index heavyweights.

According to the reports, the constancy has further lifted the main Indian equity benchmarks past key psychological levels in mid-afternoon trade. Also, the reports showed that the BSE Sensex easily crossed the 19,000 milestone whereas the NSE Nifty surpassed the 5,700 mark.

In the day’s trade, the BSE Small-Cap index and the BSE Mid-Cap index also were up by 1.08% and 1.13% respectively. While talking about the NSE Nifty, it was noticed that the figures of same were also 99 points up from its opening figures of 5,633 by reaching at 5,724, post- touching the day's high of 5,726 and day's low of 5,632.

Among the top gainers were Bharti Airtel, ITC, Hindalco and L&T with the following figures Bharti Airtel (3.60%), Hindalco Industries (3.34%), ITC (2.72%), Reliance Infrastructure (2.48%) and L&T (2.45%).