INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Domestic stock markets started Friday's session on a strong note tracking gains in Asian peers, a day after official data showed India's GDP
grew at the slowest pace in over a year
The Sensex jumped as much as 273.23 points to 36,140.67 during the session, while the Nifty moved to 10,871.60, up 79.1 points from the
benchmark index at the time were Adani Ports, Vedanta, IndusInd Bank, Indiabulls Housing Finance and Yes Bank, trading between 1.86 per cent
domestic product growth stood at 6.6 per cent in the quarter ended December 31, 2018, the slowest rate of expansion recorded since the
India-Pakistan tensions have subsided to some extent now Gains are selective, primarily the top 100 stocks are performing well," news agency
which rallied with the blue-chip CSI300 index adding 1.2 per cent
Index publisher MSCI said it would quadruple the weighting of mainland shares in its global benchmarks later this year, potentially drawing
region, helped push MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan up more than 0.3 per cent.(With agency inputs)