Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex, on Friday, opened strongly at 11,068, up 121 points, on account of the positive signals bobbing out of the foreign markets.
The index, thereafter, firmed up and reached to a high of 11,339, which was about 400 points up from its last closure.
But, heavy profit booking during the final hour of trading erased the big part of gains registered earlier in the day and fell below 11,000 mark and also hit an intra-day low of 10,946.25.
The Sensex however got well and finally closed the week after making a gain of 75.69 points at 11,023.09.
While commenting on the market performance of the day, Alex Mathew head, research centre - Geojit Financial Services stated that the stock markets belled the day in green on account of optimistic prompts coming in from the worldwide markets and dealt robustly all the morning session but capitalists cashed in on the gains produced during the morning session that occurred in the noon session earlier than the weekend and marked its closure in green but off the days` low. 
Taipei - Taiwan stocks plunged more than 4 per cent Friday due to profit-taki
New Delhi - Indian markets turned bullish in morning trading Friday with the benchmark Sensex index rising 3.5 per cent after gains in global markets.
After closing the day in red, on Thursday (April 16), on profit booking, the 30-share index BSE Sensex belled the day on a positive note today. 
Tokyo - Tokyo stocks ended morning trading higher Friday on renewed optimism over the US financial sector and the US dollar's advance against the yen.
