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Indian stocks close at new highs after ECB stimulus program

Xinhua, January 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indian stocks market benchmark BSE Sensex rose higher for the seventh consecutive session and ended at record closing high Friday led by gains in auto, capital goods and power sectors.

The 30-share index ended at all-time closing high of 29,278.84, up 272.82 points or 0.94 per cent. It touched an all-time high of 29,408.73 and a low of 29,165.56 in trade today.

So far in 2015, the Sensex has gained 6.8 percent, while foreign institutional investors have bought 782.5 million U.S. dollars from local equity markets and bought 2.36 billion dollars from the debt market. Endi