HCL Tech (up over 5 per cent), L&T, Tech M, Hindalco, Wipro, UPL, HDFC Bank, and ITC were the top gainers

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<strong>Stock market updates</strong>: Market bulls lifted indices to fresh record highs on Thursday as investors bought realty and IT stocks. The frontline S&P BSE Sensex index ended at new closing peak of 53,159 levels, up 255 points or 0.48 per cent while the Nifty50 index shut shop at 15,924-mark, up 74 points or 0.47 per cent. Earlier in the day, the Sensex scaled new lifetime of 53,266 and the Nifty touched 15,952.<br />
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	HCL Tech (up over 5 per cent), L&T, Tech M, Hindalco, Wipro, UPL, HDFC Bank, and ITC were the top gainers on the 50-share index while ONGC (down 4 per cent), Eicher Motors, Coal India, Bharti Airtel, and Grasim Industries settled as top laggards.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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	In the broader markets, the BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices added 0.3 per cent and 0.4 per cent, respectively. Sectorally, the Nifty Realty index spurted 4.5 per cent, followed by the Nifty IT index, up 1 per cent.&nbsp;</div>
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Sensex, Nifty end at fresh closing high; IT, realty stocks charge ahead

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Sensex, Nifty end at fresh closing high; IT, realty stocks charge ahead | News on Markets - Business Standard

&gt;&gt; At 8:17 AM, the index was at 15,889 levels, up 26 points<br />
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	In the overnight session, US stocks ended mixed, with S&amp;P 500 briefly hitting an intra-day record in a choppy session. Overall, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.13 per cent while the S&amp;P 500 gained 0.12 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.22 per cent.</div>
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In Asia, investors were on the sidelines as they awaited Chinese data and digested Powell&#39;s comments. Japan&rsquo;s Topix index lost 0.4 per cent, Australia&rsquo;s S&amp;P/ASX 200 index rose 0.1 per cent and South Korea&rsquo;s Kospi index added 0.2 per cent.

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Sensex, Nifty end at fresh closing high; IT, realty stocks charge ahead

HCL Tech (up over 5 per cent), L&T, Tech M, Hindalco, Wipro, UPL, HDFC Bank, and ITC were the top gainers

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