As bulls took charge of today’s session, Metal and Realty emerged as the biggest gainers among sectoral indices. At the closing bell on May 20, the Sensex closed with significant gains of 3 per cent or 1582.93 points to close at 54,375.16, while the Nifty index gained 2.9 per cent or 456.75 points at 16266.15. 

 Welspun Corp, JK Lakshmi Cement and Nava Bharat Ventures witnessed positive action in today’s session.  

After starting the week on a cheering note to falling in the middle of the week, the benchmark indices again rose on Friday to end the week higher. Following global cues, the Indian equity markets witnessed substantial volatility where Sensex 30 & Nifty 50 zoomed between 2 and 3 per cent.

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The current market sentiments are affected by factors such as rising inflation, aggressive monetary tightening, the Russia-Ukraine war, rising cases of COVID-19, and the rise in the crude price. In the last one month, the benchmark indices have fallen over 5 per cent whereas India VIX jumped 23.35 per cent, depicting hefty volatility. 

BSE Smallcap index climbed 2.13 per cent to close at 26,351.29.

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The indices soared, thanks to the gains in the index heavyweight - Reliance Industries and HDFC twins.

BSE Realty, metal and healthcare stocks were the most upper band hitters. No sector closed in the red today.

Welspun Corp Ltd, engaged in manufacturing steel pipes, has jumped by over 20 per cent to hit the upper circuit and create a fresh 52-week high, from its previous close of Rs 208.75. The stock opened at Rs 09.60 and has made its day high of Rs 250.50, where the trading in stock is halted and which is also its fresh 52-week high. It was today’s top gainer from the A group.

At 2 pm on Friday, the core equity indices i.e., Sensex and Nifty 50 recovered the losses from the last trading session and were trading higher by 2.50 per cent each.