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Markets extend gains to 1%; Bharti top gainer

Markets extend gains to 1%; Bharti top gainer

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Mumbai: Shares extended gains to 1% on Monday, led by banks, software exporters and energy major Reliance Industries as investors sought holiday-season bargains.

“I think it will be more or less range-bound this week, due to holidays and the expiry," said Jigar Shah, senior vice president at KIM ENG Securities, referring to Thursday’s derivatives expiry.

Shah said the Nifty was likely to trade between 4,700-4,900 this week.

Mobile operator Bharti Airtel was the top gainer, with a rise of 3%, while Idea Cellular rose 2.3% after the telecom tribunal gave the companies temporary respite from a government ban on 3G roaming pacts.

On Friday, the telecom ministry told carriers they would not be allowed to offer 3G services beyond the zones where they have their own radio airwaves.

Reliance Communications rose 1.6% after the Times of India reported that the company was in the final stages of talks with private equity firms Carlyle and Blackstone to sell its tower unit.

Infrastructure firm GVK Power gained 8.6% higher after the Economic Times reported Singapore’s Changi Airports may buy 26% stake in its airports business for up to Rs2,200 crore ($415 million).

A spokesman for GVK and Changi Airports said the report was speculative.

Banking stocks were the top sectoral gainers, led by top lender State Bank of India, which rose 1.4%.

Energy major Reliance Industries gained over 1%.

The 50-share NSE index was up 1.11% at 4,766.05.

In the broader market, there were more than three gainers for every loser, on volume of 720 million shares.

In Asia, Japanese stocks outperformed rest of the markets in thin trade, as signs of US economic recovery underpinned sentiment. US, European and some Asian markets including Hong Kong and Singapore are closed for a holiday.

Wall Street stocks rose on Friday, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index breaking through its 200-day moving average as upbeat data reinforced a slightly better outlook for the US economy.

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Published: 26 Dec 2011, 01:12 PM IST
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