Mumbai Sep 28 (IANS) Breaking a seven-day-long losing streak key Indian equity indices on Thursday closed in the green on the back of positive European markets and short covering in banking metals and healthcare stocks.
However volatility was induced in the markets intra-day on September derivatives expiry as investors booked profits in consumer durables capital goods and oil and gas stocks.
The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) rose by 22.55 points or 0.23 per cent to provisionally close at 9 758.30 points (at 3.30 p.m.).
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index of the BSE which opened at 31 216.36 points closed at 31 282.48 points -- up 122.67 points or 0.39 per cent.
The Sensex touched a high of 31 340.91 points and a low of 31 081.83 points during intra-day trade.
The BSE market breadth was bullish -- with 1 537 advances and 976 declines.
On Wednesday the benchmark indices tumbled for the seventh consecutive session and closed deep in the red as caution ahead of futures and options (F&O) expiry coupled with a weak rupee hampered investors risk-taking appetite.
The Sensex closed at 31 159.81 points -- down 439.95 points or 1.39 per cent while the Nifty fell by 135.75 points or 1.38 per cent to close at 9 735.75 points.
--IANS
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