The combined market valuation of seven of the top-10 most valued firms climbed â¹71,301.34 crore in the holiday-shortened last week, with Bharti Airtel emerging as the lead gainer.
In a record-breaking rally last week, the BSE benchmark climbed 374.04 points or 0.50 per cent.
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Stock markets were closed on Friday for Mahashivratri.
The 30-share BSE Sensex on Thursday settled at a new closing peak of 74,119.39. The Nifty also ended at a fresh closing high of 22,493.55.
Leading stock exchanges BSE and NSE conducted a special trading session in the equity and equity derivative segments on Saturday (March 2) to check their preparedness to handle major disruption or failure at the primary site.
While Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, Bharti Airtel, Hindustan Unilever and ITC were the gainers, Reliance Industries, Infosys and Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) suffered erosion from their market valuation.
The valuation of Bharti Airtel jumped â¹38,726.67 crore to â¹6,77,448.44 crore.
State Bank of India added â¹13,476.16 crore, taking its market valuation to â¹7,03,393.29 crore.
HDFC Bank’s valuation rallied â¹12,243.35 crore to â¹10,98,707.88 crore and that of ICICI Bank spurted by â¹3,099.76 crore to â¹7,63,581.30 crore.
The market capitalisation (mcap) of ITC climbed â¹1,469.81 crore to â¹5,15,921.57 crore and that of TCS advanced by â¹1,157.79 crore to â¹14,87,070.15 crore.
The valuation of Hindustan Unilever climbed â¹1,127.8 crore to â¹5,68,753.81 crore.
However, the mcap of Infosys tanked â¹15,875.81 crore to â¹6,71,121.34 crore and that of Reliance Industries tumbled â¹15,391.94 crore to â¹20,01,358.50 crore.
LIC’s mcap declined by â¹6,166.87 crore to â¹6,48,596.89 crore.
Reliance Industries continued to rule the chart of the most valued firms followed by TCS, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, Bharti Airtel, Infosys, LIC, Hindustan Unilever and ITC.
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