Bourses would remain closed on Wednesday and Thursday for 'Diwali Laxmi Pujan' and 'Diwali Balipratipada'. The BSE and NSE will conduct a special 'Muhurat' trading session on Wednesday.

Vikas Jain, Senior Research Analyst, Reliance Securities, talks about the market. On a weekly basis, both the Sensex and Nifty halted their two-week losing streak by surging 1,662.34 points or 5 per cent, and 523 points or 5 per cent, respectively.

Sneha Seth, Analyst, Derivative Research, takes viewers through all the market action today. The Sensex and Nifty closed higher in trade today even as the Indian currency's rise above the 73 mark strengthened trading sentiment and Asian markets surged as US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spoke by phone for resolving trade tensions between the two countries.

While the Sensex gained 579 points or 1.68% to 35,011, the Nifty rose 1.66% or 172 points to 10,553 level.

Brent crude oil prices used to price international oils, lost 26 cents to $72.63 per barrel., a fresh six-month low. It shed 2.9 percent on Thursday to $72.89 a barrel in London. The brent crude oil price has fallen 15.13% during the last one month from its 52 week high of $86.29 per barrel.

At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the domestic unit opened higher at 73.15, then gained further ground and rose above the 73 mark for the first time since October 1, registering a jump of 68 paise.

Top Sensex gainers were Vedanta (5.59%), YES Bank (4.98%) and Adani Ports (4.76%). Wipro 1.39%, Coal India (0.31%) and TCS (0.19%)  were top Sensex losers.

Sameet Chavan, Chief Analyst, Technicals and Derivatives at Angel Broking, takes viewers through all the market action today. The BSE Sensex erased all gains in a highly volatile session Thursday to end 10 points lower as losses in shares of software exporters and pharmaceutical companies offset gains in capital goods, banking and auto counters, amid unabated foreign fund outflows. The benchmark indices swung between gains and losses, with Sensex gyrating over 376 points both ways on alternate bouts of buying and selling.

Market commenced the session on a strong footing on easing concerns around the rift between the government and RBI. However, emergence of profit-booking at every rise reversed early gains.

The stock rose up to 6.2% to Rs 1,382 in intra day trade on BSE.  It opened with a gain of 2.91% at Rs 1336.15. At 9: 51 am, the stock was trading 4.59% or 60 points higher at Rs 1,358 on the BSE.

Ruchit Jain, Technical Analyst at Angel Broking, takes viewers through all the market action today. The Sensex and Nifty closed higher in today's trade powered by gains in IT and banking stocks. While the Sensex closed 550 points or 1.63% to 34,442, Nifty gained 188 points or 1.85% to end at 10,386. HDFC (5.51%), IndusInd Bank (4.47%) and Infosys (4.02%) were the top Sensex gainers.