Monday, September 12 2005 11:13 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Mumbai: The Bombay Stock Exchange's (BSE) Benchmark 30-share Index today (Sept 12, 2005) opened strong and spurted past 8100 level during morning trading on sustained buying support prompted by expectations of encouraging corporate results and firm global advices.

The Sensex opened remarkably up at 8072.99 as against Friday's close of 8060.01 and later rallied further to hit a new intra-trade high of 8119.78 within minutes of trading. net purchasers in the debt market at Rs 399.04 crore.

The foreign funds recorded highest net inflows of the trading week in equities at Rs 543.30 crore (US$ 124.50 mn) on September nine followed by Rs 247.90 crore (US$ 56.80 mn) on September six.

Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) were net sellers in the debt market at Rs 165 crore (US$ 37.90 mn) on September five.

MFs recorded highest net purchases in the equity market on September five when they picked up equity worth Rs 88.84 crore.

The highest purchases by MFs in debt market were on September five at Rs 343.32 crore.

The BSE, during the week under review, saw the Sensex gaining 160.24 points to close at 8060.01 points.