Indian equity benchmarks finished at a near two-month high on Monday, extending gains for the second consecutive day, amid widespread buying, with Capital Goods and Realty sectors in high demand.

Sensex rose 650.98 points or 1.09% to 60,395.63 and Nifty was up by 190.60 points or 1.07% to 18,003.30 in the previous session. Sensex touched high and low of 60,427.36 and 59,987.18, respectively and there were 20 stocks advancing against 10 stocks declining on the index while Nifty traded in a range of 18,017.45 and 17,879.15 and there were 35 stocks advancing against 15 stocks declining on the index.

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3P Land Holdings Limited, 63 moons technologies limited, Archidply Decor Limited, Allied Digital Services Limited, 20 Microns, Vascon Engineers, India Nippon Electricals¸Vaswani Industries, Kitex Garments¸Ashima, Precision Camshafts and Sunteck Realty have made fresh 52 weeks high on Monday.

JBM Auto has announced the acquisition of a 51% stake in JBM Green Energy Systems Private Limited and JBM EV Industries Private Limited through its subsidiary JBM Electric Vehicles Private Limited. 

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DSP LIQUID ETF, Lumax Industries Limited, MAS Financial Services Limited, Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund – Motilal Oswal 5 Year G Sec ETF – Growth, and Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund – Motilal Oswal Nasdaq Q 50 ETF have hit a 52-week low on Monday.

Marshall Machines has said in a filing with the exchange that it has made good progress on its business strategy to transform into a unique R&D and IP driven company. 

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JPPOWER, IDEA, ALOKINDS, GMRINFRA, and GTLINFRA were the most active equities on NSE.

Anupam Rasayan has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) worth USD 95 million with one of the top ten multinational crop protection companies for supplying a new life science-related active ingredient. 

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Coral India Finance & Housing Limited,  IndoStar Capital Finance Limited, Quantum Nifty ETF, Maheshwari Logistics Limited, and GTPL Hathway Limited were the top volume gainers.

The shares of Pidilite Industries rose to Rs 2,739.95, up by 0.60% from the last trading session. Making a fresh 52-week high, the company has been extending its gains for the past eight trading sessions. The RSI as well as MACD indicators are trading in positive territory.

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20MICRONS, 21STCENMGM, 3PLAND, 63MOONS, and A2ZINFRA hit the upper price band while AHLWEST, ALPSINDUS, ARTNIRMAN, BALLARPUR, and BANKA hit the lower price band. There were 301 securities that hit the upper band while 48 hit the lower band on January 10, 2022.