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While the entire market was fighting volatility, IT sector managed to bounce back and maintain upsurge after falling for the first half an hour of the trading session on Friday. Nifty IT index gave a record closure at 13,260 levels after January 24 close of 13,250 levels.

Market regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has tightened norms for the disclosure of the performance track record of the merged schemes. The move aims to standardize the performance disclosure of the schemes.

Premier Explosives (PEL) and the French defence company Nexter have decided to tie-up for manufacturing Bi-Modular Charge Systems (BMCS) in order to respond to the needs of the Indian Ministry of Defense.

The shares of Reliance Industries surged by 0.7 per cent on Friday. The movement can be attributed to the acquisition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based education platform Embibe.

Agriculture-related stocks witnessed a sharp rally on the bourses in Friday’s trade on the back of expectations that the sector will reap benefits from the government’s initiative to boost rural income.

telecom sector took some breather at lower levels. Hopes for a favourable policy decisions in the upcoming New Telecom Policy 2018 may help the sector bounce back. Bharti Infratel gave a prolonged consolidation breakout and also a downward sloping multiple point trendline breakout at 346.50 levels.

Ashok Leyland has bagged a critical order from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for supplying High Mobility 10x10 vehicles i.e. HMV 10x10. The Indian Army plans to deploy these vehicles since a long time to carry Smerch Rockets.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 12.55 p.m. on April 13, 2018.

The markets on April 13, 2018 opened up. BSE Sensex is trading at 34,284.90, up by 183.77 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,504.55, up by 45.90 points.