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    Market Now: BSE Oil & Gas index hits fresh record high; HPCL, BPCL among top gainers

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    Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.

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    NEW DELHI: Gains in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (up 2.69 per cent), Petronet LNG (up 2.45 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 2.41 per cent), Castrol India (up 1.32 per cent) and Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.58 per cent) helped S&P BSE Oil & Gas index hit a fresh record high of 15,844 in Tuesday's trade.

    The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.67 per cent up at 15796 around 2.40 pm (IST). Benchmark Nifty50 was 0.04 per cent up at 10,235, while Sensex was 0.01 per cent down at 32,629.

    Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.

    However, Indraprastha Gas (down 1.77 per cent), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (down 0.55 per cent), Oil India (down 0.47 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 0.06 per cent) and Reliance Industries (down 0.06 per cent) were among the losers in the index around the same time.

    Idea Cellular, NTPC, Bharti Airtel, State Bank of India, DLF, Bharti Infratel and ICICI Bank were trading among the most active stocks in terms of volume on NSE.

    Shares of Polo Queen Industrial and Fintech, Onelife Capital, Aries Agro, Hitachi Home, Poddar Pigments and Saboo Sodium hit their fresh 52-week highs on NSE in today's trade.

    On the other hand, Powerhouse Fitness, VKJ Infradevelopers, Shantanu Sheorey, Birdhi Chand Pannalal, Sri Adhikari and Escorts Finance hit fresh 52-week lows.

    On the BSE, 1,345 stocks were advancing whereas 1,254 stocks were lagging and 128 stocks were appearing unchanged.



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