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Sensex ends 517 points up at 26,231, Nifty closes at 7,949

By FnF Correspondent | PUBLISHED: 27, Aug 2015, 16:22 pm IST | UPDATED: 27, Aug 2015, 16:23 pm IST

Sensex ends 517 points up at 26,231, Nifty closes at 7,949

Mumbai: The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty closed 516.53 points and 157.10 points higher at 26,231.19 and 7,948.95, respectively.

All the sectoral indices on the Bombay Stock Exchange ended in green. The BSE Realty index jumped the most — 4.02 per cent at 1,284. The BSE Oil & Gas and BSE Metal index gained 2.83 per cent and 2.55 per cent at 8,773.56 and 7,345.07, respectively.

HDFC (8.66 per cent), Cairn India (up 7.48 per cent) and Vedanta (7.01 per cent) remained top gainers in the Nifty index.

Asian peers, Hang Seng, Nikkei and Shanghai closed 3.60 per cent, 1.08 per cent and 5.34 per cent higher at 21,838.54, 18,574.44 and 3,083.59, respectively.