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The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex rose more than 500 points on the first working day of the new year.
The first trading of the year started today after the New Year and Sunday holidays in the stock markets. Business boomed as investors bought shares from the beginning.
The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex was up 507 points at 58,761 at 10.30 am. The National Stock Exchange index Nifty was up 141 points at 17,495.
Shares of automakers and IT companies rose as much as 3 percent.
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