New Delhi, 31 August (HS). The domestic stock market witnessed record-breaking growth during the trading week that ended on Friday. Both the Sensex and Nifty indices set all-time high records. Nifty kept setting new all-time high records every day for 3 consecutive days. Similarly, the Sensex also succeeded in reaching new peaks on the last two trading days of the week. Like the Sensex and Nifty, the midcap index and the smallcap index also succeeded in reaching new records of strength.
After the trading from Monday to Friday, the BSE Largecap index jumped by 1.32 percent. Similarly, the Midcap index gained 1.5 percent. At the same time, the Smallcap index managed to gain 0.61 percent.
If we talk about the sensitive index Sensex, then this index was able to reach the highest level of 82,637.03 points on Friday. During the whole week, this index ended the trading at the level of 82,365.77 points after gaining 1,279.56 points i.e. 1.57 percent. Similarly, Nifty also made a new record of all-time high on three consecutive days i.e. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Friday, Nifty was able to reach the highest level of 25,268.35 points. After the whole week's trading, Nifty closed at the level of 25,235.90 points with a gain of 412.75 points i.e. 1.66 percent.
During the trading week that ended on Friday, the Smallcap index could only gain 0.61 percent. However, 40 stocks included in this index gave their investors huge profits by giving double digit returns. Notable names among the stocks that gave huge profits to investors are Bhagoria Industries (30.05 percent), NIIT Limited (30.92 percent), Gujarat State Petronet Limited (30.70 percent), Good Luck India (30.51 percent), Datamatics Global Services (24.47 percent) and Godfrey Phillips India (20.37 percent). Apart from these, the stocks of 36 other companies gave returns ranging from 18.27 percent to 10.03 percent.