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Indian market retains trillion-dollar tag

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Press Trust Of India

India on Monday managed to hold on to the elite league of 14 countries with a trillion-dollar stock market.

Although this was by a small margin, with a market size just over this mark at $1.0116 trillion.

As the Sensex plunged to a 28-month low, the total size of the market today dipped to Rs 5,348,352 crore, measured in terms of total value of all the listed companies in the country.

At the currency rate of Rs 52.87 against the dollar at the end of day, the Indian market was worth $1,011.6 billion in the American currency.

At the day's lowest level of rupee at Rs 53.25, the market size was $1004.4 billion.

 

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First Published: Dec 20 2011 | 12:02 AM IST

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