Sensex nears 15k mark.

Sensex continues to trade in positive terrain and has touched one month high, nearing 15,000 mark. The 30 share Index has gained 844.24 points to touch the high of 14, 948.44 during the day. Heavy buying interest can be seen across the board.

Currently the Sensex is trading up 820.88 points, or 5.82%, at 14,925.08. While the broad-based NSE Nifty climbed 234.85 points, or 5.54%, to 4,474.95. (2.39 pm)

Overall market breadth has been positive. Out of the total 2,689 shares traded at BSE, 2,245 advanced, 391 declined while 53 remained unchanged.

All sectoral Indices are trading in positive, led by BSE Bankex which surged 9.97%. The other gainers were BSE Power and BSE Realty which rose 8.38% and 8.28% respectively.

Biggest gainers in the 30-share index were Reliance Communication (12.96%), BHEL (12.53%), ICICI Bank (12.20%). Reliance Infra, HDFC, HDFC Bank and SBI were also other gainers,

Except Cipla which declined 0.99%, there were no other losers in the Sensex.

Source: - Iris