Sensex retakes 32k, gains 152 points on festive week

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Mumbai: The BSE Benchmark started the holiday truncated week with heavy gains, as both indices made fresh highs on positive trade data and encouraging comments from the IMF chief on the outlook for Indian economy cheered investors. Sentiment was also cheerful ahead of Diwali festival.

However, after gaining a bullish momentum, the indices started consolidating on Tuesday, the Nifty ended almost flat while the Sensex ended in red and on Wednesday the Nifty observed some heavy distribution as it gained one distribution day, while the Sensex posted a loss of almost 25 points.