BSE accepts 20 fresh bids for membership
Mumbai: The governing board of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has accepted as many as 20 bids for fresh corporate membership to the exchange. Of the 27 bids received by BSE, 20 have been shortlisted. This is the first time, since 1992, that the exchange is offering membership in such large numbers.

The shortlist of 20 include Anand Rathi Securities, Motilal Oswal Broking, Probity Research and Services and K Damani Securities, among others.
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Markets listless, sensex gain marginal
Mumbai: Continuing the consolidation phase, the trading in the stock markets continued to be listless. As a result of this the indices for the BSE and the NSE hardly saw any major movement.

The BSE sensex closed the day at 5,156 points a mere 10 points higher than its previous close, while the NSE Nifty closed the day at 1,568 points just 6 points higher than its previous close.

While select infotech scrips continued to rise, the Reliance scrip was the star of the day and a sharp rally in this scrip saw the stock hitting the upper circuit.

Of the 139 scrips traded in the forward group on the BSE, there were 82 gainers and 53 losers. On the B1 and B2 groups on the BSE, there were 404 and 326 gainers as compared to 523 and 390 losers.

On the NSE, of the total 1,911 stocks traded, there were 1,009 gainers and 769 losers.

Aggregate volumes on both exchanges were higher on Tuesday as compared to the trade volumes on Monday.
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