All sectoral indices ended in the green, led by realty, power, consumer durables and metals. Brokers said sentiment was bullish on continuous recovery in the rupee amid reports that the government may announce steps to prop up the domestic unit.

A recovery in rupee, unabated buying by domestic institutional investors (DIIs) and encouraging earnings by blue-chips contributed to the uptrend, brokers said.

Small cap and midcap indices on the BSE rose 0.27% and 0.23%, respectively. The revival was led by banking stocks with the BSE Bankex rising 1.04% or 306 points to 29,709 level. Bank Nifty too rose 292 points to 26,557 level.

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Benchmark Sensex succumbed to fag- end profit-booking to end 144 points lower on Wednesday after banking stocks tumbled on RBI's new norms for recognising stressed assets.

The 30-share Sensex opened higher and continued its upward march to touch a new intra-day record high of 34,385.67, surpassing its previous high of 34,188.85 hit on January 5.

While the Sensex hit an all-time high of 34,356, Nifty was trading above 10,600 for the first time ever, rising more than 50 points from Friday's close. Of 50 Nifty stocks, 45 were in trading the green.

Dr Reddy's (1.80%), Bharti Airtel (1.45%), Tata Steel (1.09%) top Sensex losers. Market breadth was positive with 1,587 stocks closing higher against 1,120 ending lower on BSE.

Asian stocks rose, lifted by bets on strong US earnings and US tax reform, while the euro retreated from a three-week high as jitters returned over the first round of French presidential elections on Sunday after a shooting in Paris.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan bounced 0.8 percent, its biggest daily rise since Nov. 22, breaking two days of falls. Korea .KS11 climbed 1.2 percent while Japan .N225 rose 0.8 percent.

Deutsche Bank on Monday cut back its December Sensex target to 25,000 from 27,000 and has forecasted the remaining of 2016 to be 'highly uncertain' with markets to continue to project 'volatility with downward bias'.

By midmorning it had steadied at around $1.2362, still down 2 per cent from late US levels and leaving traders scratching their heads in the absence of any major news overnight.

Bullish dollar sentiment overseas alongside sluggish domestic equity market predominantly impacted the domestic currency.

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