Tenneco Clean Air, Ceat, Star Health shares surge over 12% amid heavy volumes; check full list

The Indian equity benchmarks extended gains in noon deals on Wednesday, April 29, led by buying interest in index heavyweights like Reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel, ITC, Infosys, Larsen & Toubro, Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra & Mahindra. The SENSEX rose as much as 1,014 points and NIFTY50 index moved above its important psychological level of 24,200 to hit an intraday high of 24,311.

As of 12:19 pm, the SENSEX was up 954 points or 1.24% at 77,842 and NIFTY50 index advanced 298 points to 24,295.

Trading volume on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) jumped by 20.5 times to 90.84 lakh shares compared with an average trading volume of 4.43 lakh shares.

On the BSE, 7.13 lakh shares changed hands compared with an average of 47,000 shares traded daily in the past two weeks.

The standalone health insurer posted a net profit of ₹50 lakh during the same quarter of the previous year.

During the reporting quarter, total income increased to ₹4,545 crore from ₹3,989 crore in the same period a year ago, Star Health and Allied Insurance Company said in a regulatory filing.

Trading volume jumped by 18 times to 60.4 lakh shares compared with an average trading volume of 3.27 lakh shares.

The company posted a consolidated net profit of ₹98.71 crore in the corresponding quarter of the preceding fiscal, CEAT Ltd said in a regulatory filing.

Consolidated revenue from operations in the latest fourth quarter stood at ₹4,218.89 crore as compared to ₹3,420.62 crore in the year-ago period, it added.

Trading volume in the stock spike by 16.5 times to 17.76 lakh shares compared with an average volume of 1.07 lakh shares.

Trading volume spiked by 8.5 times on the NSE compared with an average volume of 6.65 lakh shares.

On the BSE, as many as 3.29 lakh shares changed hands compared with an average of 1.46 lakh shares traded daily in the past two weeks.