The Indian stock markets remained buoyant and close higher on Monday, for the seventh consecutive day, after an intraday volatile session.

During trading session, the Sensex surpassed the 11,000 mark while the Nifty tested the 3,400 level. BSE Sensex settled the day at 10,967, up 163 points or 1.51%, and Nifty ended up 40 points or 1.21% to 3,382.

Further, BSE Mid Caps and Small Caps also ended the day with gains of 106.57 and 147.61 points at 3,464.92 and 3,915.16 respectively.  

Punjab National Bank (PNB), India’s second largest public sector bank, has entered into an alliance with four brokerage firms, including Networth Stock Broking and SMC Global Securities, to strengthen its online securities trading services.  
 
Currently, PNB in association with IDBI Capital Market Services, offers online securities trading services to its clients through 139 branches spread across 60 centres all over the country.  
 

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Tokyo - Tokyo's markets lost ground Tuesday as investor concerns grew about the US financial sector with bank results to be released this week. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell 113.35 points, or 1.27 per cent, to 8,811.08.

The broader Topix index of all first-section issues was also down 10.29 points, or 1.21 per cent, at 838.68.

Japanese investors sold shares after they became concerned about Goldman Sachs Financial Group moving to raise 5 billion dollars of additional capital.

Indian Markets closed higher on back on strong global cues and positive reports from