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Business News/ Markets / Live Blog/  Sensex Today | Market Close Highlights : Sensex ends up 300pts, Nifty at 22,200; Realty, IT gain, O&G, PSU Bank fall
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Sensex Today | Market Close Highlights : Sensex ends up 300pts, Nifty at 22,200; Realty, IT gain, O&G, PSU Bank fall

Sensex Today | Market Close Highlights : Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) net sold shares worth 285.15 crore, while domestic institutional investors (DIIs) offloaded 5.33 crore worth of stocks on February 26, provisional data from the NSE showed.

Sensex Today | Market Close Highlights : The NSE F&O ban list for February 27 includes companies like Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail, Balrampur Chini Mills, Canara Bank, SAIL and Zee Entertainment Enterprises. (Photo: Reuters)Premium
Sensex Today | Market Close Highlights : The NSE F&O ban list for February 27 includes companies like Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail, Balrampur Chini Mills, Canara Bank, SAIL and Zee Entertainment Enterprises. (Photo: Reuters)

Sensex Today | Market Close Highlights : European shares moved slightly up on Tuesday, led by gains in basic resources shares and upbeat earnings, while investors and central bankers await inflation data this week that could alter the course for interest rates.

The pan-European STOXX 600 was up 0.1% by 8:21 GMT.

Asian shares slipped on Tuesday, with slightly warmer-than-expected Japanese inflation putting investors on guard ahead of price data due in Europe and the U.S. this week, though bitcoin extended gains on signs that institutional buyers are circling.

The yen steadied at 150.50 to the dollar and inched off a three-month low on the euro as Japanese inflation stayed at the central bank's 2% year-on-year target, keeping alive expectations it would exit negative rates by April.

Tokyo's Nikkei eked a fresh record high, but closed just 0.01% firmer. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped 0.2%, keeping below last week's seven-month peak.

Later in the day, U.S. numbers for durable goods sales, consumer confidence and home prices will be on investors' radar.

Brent crude futures hovered around $82.63 a barrel after Reuters reported Hamas received a draft Gaza truce proposal including a 40-day pause in fighting.

S&P 500 nudged 0.1% lower while Nasdaq futures, FTSE futures and European futures each fell about 0.2%.

Ten-year U.S. Treasury yields were last 1.4 basis points lower at 4.29%. Two-year yields fell 3 bps to 4.71%.

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