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The
market has opened volatile on first day of February series but immediately
gained strength.
- Sensex rose 122.59 points to 24592.16
- Nifty
climbed 45.50 points to 7470.15.
- ONGC, ITC, Coal India, HDFC, Bharti Airtel,
Vedanta, Cairn India and Kotak Mahindra Bank rallied 1.8-4 percent while ICICI
Bank tanked 5 percent.
- Maruti Suzuki, Axis Bank, Tata Motors and Dr Reddy's
Labs lost ground.
- The Indian rupee gained in the early trade today. It has
opened higher by 13 paise at 68.10 per dollar against previous close of 68.23.
Asian shares were trading higher with Shanghai and Hang Seng up 2 percent each.
Nikkei gained 1 percent after Bank of Japan adopted negative interest rate
policy.
US equities closed higher as a rise in oil and gains in Facebook
outweighed pressure from declines in biotech stocks and concerns about economic
growth. The major indices ended off session highs but recovered from an
intraday dip into negative territory.