Sensex crosses 11,000 first time ever in morning trade

Mumbai, Mar 21: The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensitive Index (Sensex) crossed the 11,000 mark first time ever in the morning trade, touching 11,001.50 points with a gain of 60.39 points over Monday's close of 10,941 points.

The benchmark index cooled down thereafter and traded at 10,976 with a gain of 35 points at 1110 hrs.

Sensex took 31 trading sessions to cross over the 11,000 mark after it had crossed the 10,000 mark on Februaru six.

With the 11,000 mark, BSE Sensex has joined the exclusive club of the leading world market indices like Dow Jones (USA), Nikkei (Japan) and Hang Seng (Hong Kong) that trade above 11,000 mark.

UNI