Gold rose to a 3 week high of $918.25 on Monday due to rise in risk aversion amidst fears of swine flu in North America. In the Indian markets, gold rose by Rs 140 to regain the 15,000 mark fast tracked by heavy buying by the retail investors on 'Akshay Tritiya'.
The world's largest gold-backed exchangetraded fund, the SPDR Gold Trust, said its holdings remained at 1,104.45 tonnes as of April 28, unchanged from the previous day. Its holdings hit a record 1,127.68 tonnes on April 9, and remained at that level for a week.
Oil prices fell for the second straight trading session by nearly 3% to $50.14 per barrel on concerns that the swine influenza may affect the travel and hospitality industry resulting in a further delay in the recovery from the global recession. Investors feared a new blow to an already fragile global economy if trade flows are curbed and manufacturing is hit.
Base metals witnessed range bound trading session and ended the day with negative bias, Copper and zinc shed more than 4% discounting the flu to snow ball into a pandemic and derail the global economy's nascent recovery.
Areva T&D India Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of AREVA France SA has posted a net profit af
Water purifier manufacturer Kent RO Systems is all set to enter the estimated Rs 300 crore low-cost mass market water purifier segment. 
The BSE-benchmark-Sensex gained for the third day in a row after an extremely volatile session as investors took calculative steps ahead of F&O expiry on 29th April 2009. 
