Sensex regains lost ground, up by 178 pts to 10,684

Mumbai, July 10 (UNI) The BSE Sensex swung 243 points and closed 174 points up at 10,684.73, on cues from the global markets after they shrugged-off their fear of another Fed rate hike.

The Government data for job requirements in US has turned out to be much lower than expected, leading to rise in the US stocks on Dow Jones and Nasdaq.

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensitive index (Sensex) closed at 10,684.73 points today, as compared to the previous close of 10,509.53. The index touched a high of 10,704 and a low of 10,461.73 in the intra-day trading today.

BSE sectoral indices also registered gains, after a less than average performance today in the earlier two trading sessions.

IT sector was up by 3.23 per cent, Teck was up by 3.18 per cent, PSU was up by 1.74 per cent, oil and gas by 1.67 per cent, metals by 1.22 per cent, FMCG by 0.39 per cent and midcap by 0.31 per cent.

The smallcap and bankex index were down by 0.09 and 0.39 per cent.

The gainers on the index were - Bharti Tele, Wipro, ONGC, Maruti Udyog, Gujarat Ambuja, HDFC, TCS and Infosys, all down between 2.78 and 5.14 per cent.

The losers were - ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and ITC, down by 1.28 per cent, 0.78 per cent and 0.17 per cent, respectively.

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