The Indian major indices finished flat on Friday after a tumultuous session, snapping a three-day gain streak. However, the Nifty50 gained for the second week in a row, powered by financial, oil and gas, auto, and metal sectors.

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Sensex fell 20.46 points or 0.03% to 58,786.67 while Nifty was down by 5.55 points or 0.03% to 17,511.30. Sensex touched high and low of 58,859.91 and 58,414.76, respectively and there were 13 stocks advancing against 17 stocks declining on the index while Nifty traded in a range of 17,534.35 and 17,405.25 and there were 20 stocks advancing against 29 stocks declining, while 1 stock remains unchanged on the index.

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The broader indices ended in green; the BSE Midcap index rose 0.39%, while the Small cap index was up by 0.85%. The top gaining sectoral indices on the BSE were Realty up by 2.90%, Oil & Gas up by 0.86%, Consumer Discretionary up by 0.74%, Power up by 0.73%, Utilities up by 0.56%, while Consumer Durables down by 0.28%, Telecom down by 0.19%, Bankex down by 0.08%, Finance down by 0.04% and TECK down by 0.02% were the top losing indices on BSE.

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The BSE Realty Index hit the 4,000 mark on Friday and thereafter witnessed profit booking. The index gained up to 2.9 percent in an otherwise bearish market. Indiabulls Real Estate, DLF, Oberoi Realty, Godrej Properties, and Mahindra Lifespace Developers were the real estate stocks outperforming the benchmark indices. 

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Coffee Day Enterprises, Mirza International, Network18 Media & Investments, Rajdarshan Industries, Bharat Bijlee, Esab India, and Mayur Uniquoters made a fresh 52-week high today.

Ratnamani Metals and Tubes has informed the exchange that it has received new domestic orders aggregating to Rs 136.79 crores and new export orders aggregating to Rs 52.84 crores for the supply of tubes and pipes, from the oil & gas and power sectors, to be executed between February 2022 and May 2023. 

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DJ Media print and Logistics have recently announced that it had successfully secured orders scanning and digitization services from Mumbai District Central Co-operative Bank Limited for its 53 branches across Mumbai.  

APLLTD, DCBBANK, EMAMILTD, LICHSGFIN, PERSISTENT, PHOENIXLTD, SUVENPHAR recovered from their lows.