Sensex on Monday, 8 February, rallied 617.14 points to end at a new all-time high of 51,348.77, while Nifty soared 191.55 points to a record 15,115.80, news agency PTI reported.
The key Indian equity indices had opened at new record levels on Monday, with the across-the-board rise having been led by banking, finance and auto stocks.
Meanwhile, the Rupee settled four paise lower at 72.97 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday.
The market performance comes exactly a week after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget in Parliament.
Meanwhile, the RBI on Friday had kept the repo rate unchanged at 4 percent, with the central bank Governor Shaktikanta Das saying the GDP growth has been projected at 10.5 percent for the financial year 2021-22.
(With inputs from PTI and IANS.)
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