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Indian stocks rise to fresh record high

Xinhua, January 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indian stocks market benchmark BSE Sensex rose to a fresh record high for the third straight day in a row on Thursday, led by gains in the shares of pharma and IT companies, and banks.

The index closed up 0.41 percent or 117.16 points at 29,006.02.

So far in 2015, the Sensex has gained 5.4 percent, while foreign institutional investors have bought 436.7 million U.S. dollars from local equity markets and 2.21 billion U.S. dollars from the debt market. Endi