ONGC (1.37%) , ICICI Bank (1.33%)  and SBI (0.72%)  were the top  Sensex losers.  Market breadth was marginally positive with 1327 stocks closing higher compared to 1275 ending lower on the BSE.

PNB Housing Finance was trading 0.89% lower, Indiabulls Housing Finance dipped 2.32%, Dewan Housing Finance rose 2.86%, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services fell by 0.74 per cent, Ujjivan Financial Services declined 0.22 per cent and Shriram Transport Finance softened by 0.85% on the BSE.

While the Sensex gained 118 points or 0.34% to 35,260, the Nifty rose 0.38% or 40 points to 10,616 level.

Tata Motors (4.84%), Hero MotoCorp (3.82%) and PowerGrid 2.87% were the top Sensex losers. Of 30 Sensex stocks, 25 closed lower.

Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (5.16%), Indiabulls Housing Finance (6.04%), Reliance Home Finance (3.13%), Gruh Finance (2.02%), VLS Finance (1.06%), Reliance Capital (1.33%), PNB Housing Finance (1.01%), and LIC Housing Finance (2.36%) were the major losers in the sector.

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.

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

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.

HDFC (5.51%), IndusInd Bank (4.47%) and Infosys (4.02%) were the top Sensex gainers. Market breadth was positive with 1,612 stocks closing higher compared to 941 ending lower on the BSE.

Reliance Industries fell 2.8 percent, while Housing Development Finance Corporation slipped 1.6 percent. Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd fell 4.77 percent, and was the top loser on the NSE index.

Ruchit Jain, Technical Analyst at Angel Broking, takes viewers through all the market action today. The Sensex and Nifty rose in trade on value buying in recently battered stocks and a surging rupee. While the Sensex rose 500 points or 1.51% to 33,852, Nifty gained 154 points to 10,184. ICICI Bank (9.52%), SBI (7.90%) and Adani Ports (6.47%) were the top Sensex gainers.