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Sensex, Nifty Recover Losses to End Flat After Last Hour Rally in IT, Bank Stocks

Asia shares trade mixed this morning on lack of any major data.

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building, left, looms over a no-entry street sign in Mumbai. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building, left, looms over a no-entry street sign in Mumbai. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg
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Indian shares recovered their intra-day losses to close slightly higher led by a rally information technology and banking companies.

The S&P BSE Sensex is little changed at 27,990 and so is the Nifty at 8,632. However, the indices are up around 0.6 percent from their day’s lows.

 Sensex, Nifty Recover Losses to End Flat After Last Hour Rally in IT, Bank Stocks
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The quota reserved for qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) was subscribed 28.39 times while the non-institutional investors portion was subscribed 37.98 times. The chunk set aside for retail investors saw subscription of 4.7 times the issue size, as per the NSE data.


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 Sensex, Nifty Recover Losses to End Flat After Last Hour Rally in IT, Bank Stocks

 Sensex, Nifty Recover Losses to End Flat After Last Hour Rally in IT, Bank Stocks
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