Better-than-expected Sensex, Nifty close at record highs

Mumbai: Better-than-expected macroeconomic data boosted investors' sentiment, which helped key Indian equity indices to scale high level and close at a record high on Monday.

The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) provisionally closed at 63.40 points or 0.62 per cent higher at 10,230.85 points.

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The Sensex of the BSE, which opened at 32,488.23 points, provisionally closed at 32,633.64 points (at 1541 hours), higher 200.95 points or 0.62 per cent from Friday's close at 32,432.69 points.

The Sensex has touched a high of 32,687.32 points and a low of 32,445.43 points in the trade so far.

--IANS