Continued buying interest in key stocks, firm worldwide cues and upbeat results of the companies led the Sensex to achieve a new peak of 19,095.75.

On this technical analyst, Vishwas Agarwal, said, “Ultimately our long awaited 5,678 was acheived today on NSE. Here I will take some rest, but there is a lot of opportunity for traders and also there are options in some stocks.”

Mumbai: The benchmark Sensex has gathered up more than 224 points in early trading on the Bombay St

The stock market is likely to maintain an average surplus liquidity of about

Thanks to continued buying interest in heavyweight stocks including Reliance Industries (up 3%), ONGC (up 4.1%) and Tata Steel (up 4.35%), the Sensex has break off its lower levels this morning.

BHEL (1.6%), Hindalco (2.1%), Mahindra & Mahindra (0.85%), ACC (0.6%) and Reliance Energy (0.55%) have also recorded superior gains.

SBI, Bajaj Auto, Grasim Industries and Tata Motors were trading around their last closing levels.

Mumbai: Koutons Retail India has listed on the NSE with public issue shares today, October 12, 2007.

Koutons Retail India got listed at Rs 510 on the National Stock Exchange, with a premium of 23 per cent to the issue price of Rs 415 per share.

In early trading (9:56 am), the stock gained 46.50 per cent at Rs 608. The total volume stood at 1.5 lakh shares. It touched an intraday high of Rs 620 and an intraday low of Rs 502.50.

The scrip opened at Rs 515 on BSE. In few minutes, it reached Rs 610, up 47 per cent to the issue price. It also touched a peak of Rs 649.