Business

Domestic share markets started the week on a strong note, with the BSE Sensex posting a fresh all-time closing high.
BSE benchmark index Sensex gained 222 points, or 0.61 per cent, to settle at36,718while the NSE Nifty ended at 11,084, up 74 points or 0.68 per cent - its highest close since January 29.
During the session, the Sensex registered a fresh all-time high of 36,749, surpassing the last all-time intraday high of 36,747 recorded on July 18.Consumer stocks such as heavyweight ITC led the gains, days after the GST Council reduced tax rates on several items while keeping the cess on cigarettes unchanged.
Other top gainers on the 50-scrip index were UPL, Vedanta, Bajaj Finserv and Adani Ports, finishing the session with gains of between 3.6 per cent and 15.5 per cent.Hindustan Unilever closed 1.9 per cent higher.Here are five things to know:1.
The latest move by the GST Council will lead to lower taxes on more than 100 items, such as paints, leather goods, televisions, washing machines, refrigerators.
The revised tax rates will come into effect from July 27.
The relief for consumers in the form of lower taxes under GST supported investor sentiment, say analysts.2.The Nifty FMCG index, the NSE's sectoral index comprising consumer goods stocks, rose 2.5 per cent.
Besides ITC and HUL, Godrej Industries, Tata Global, Emami and Britannia finished the day with gains of around 1-2 per cent each.Asian Paints and Akzo Nobel finished 2.7 and 1.5 per cent respectively.
The GST Council moved paints and varnishes from the 28 per cent tax slab to 18 per cent.3.Other prominent gainers included metal stocks.
Vedanta, Hindustan Copper, Tata Steel and Jindal Steel - surging between 2 per cent and 4 per cent each - pushed the Nifty Metal index 1.5 higher.4.UPL gained after the agrochemicals company said on Friday it would buy a unit of Platform Specialty Products, Arysta LifeScience, for $4.2 billion.5.
Meanwhile, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) net purchased shares worth Rs 310.27 crore while domestic institutional investors net sold equities to the tune of Rs 50.73 crore last Friday, according to provisional data from the NSE.(With agency inputs)





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