Retreating from its lifetime high, the BSE Sensex dropped 106 points in opening trade on Friday on profit-booking in recent gainers amid a weak trend at other Asian markets.

The 30-share barometer fell by 106.02 points or 0.27 per cent to 37,918.35, with banking, PSU, metal, realty and FMCG stocks falling up to 0.30 per cent.

Sensex breached the 38,000 barrier for the first time in early trades on Thursday morning. The markets are in high spirits after IMF prediction that Indian economy is in good hands.

Sensex jumped 117.47 points to 38,005.03 and Nifty too opened at a fresh record high.

When it comes to the Indian stock market, analysts are not following investors’ exuberance. A booming economy and encouraging corporate results have sent the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex racing past 22 record highs this year. While gains have accelerated in the past six weeks, analysts have failed to keep up, and the average price estimate for members of the gauge is now just 14 percent above their stock prices, the narrowest gap since February, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

The Nifty indices for small- and mid-cap stocks clocked gains for a 12th consecutive day on Monday and yielded returns of 8.9% and 7.3%, respectively during the period as investors lapped up beaten-down stocks from the two categories.

The 12-day rally has also helped both indices to pare their year-to-date (YTD) losses to 16.5% and 9.2%, respectively. From the beginning of 2018 to mid July, the two gauges fell by as much as 23.3% and 16%, respectively.

Although the bourses scaled their fresh all-time closing highs on Monday, the number of stocks hitting their 52-week lows were higher than the stocks hitting their respective 52-week high levels. On Monday, 92 stocks scaled to hit their respective 52-week highs, while 98 stocks hit their 52-week lows.

Domestic markets on Friday opened in green tracking the positive global cues. At 9:41 AM, Sensex was up by 37,413.27 points while Nifty was at 11,321.45 points. On Thursday, Sensex dropped over 200 points to 37,373.08 on heavy selling in metal, auto, banking, capital and realty stocks amid sustained capital outflows by foreign funds after the RBI yesterday hiked repo rate for the second time in two months.

Benchmark Sensex snapped its seven-session record setting spree to end 85 points lower today after the RBI hiked the policy rate on inflation concerns.

The Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee raised the benchmark lending rate by 0.25 per cent for the second time in two months.

Benchmark Sensex slipped from life highs to fall over 100 points to 37,381.05 today as markets took a breather after six consecutive record-setting sessions.

Weak trend in other Asian markets, muted earnings and fresh foreign capital outflows weighed on investor sentiment here.

Benchmark Sensex slipped from life highs to fall over 100 points to 37,381.05 on Tuesday as markets took a breather after six consecutive record-setting sessions.

Weak trend in other Asian markets, muted earnings and fresh foreign capital outflows weighed on investor sentiment here.

The benchmark BSE Sensex on Monday opened at an all-time high of 37,491 points while Nifty20 traded above the 11,300 mark. At 9.40 AM, Sensex was at 37,413.15 points, up by 76.30 or 0.20 per cent and Nifty was at 11,302.10 points, up by 23.75 or 0.21 per cent.

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