A late surge in the last half an hour of Tuesday’s session took the Sensex to a record closing high — above the 34,000 mark. After opening at 34,005, the sensex mostly remained in a narrow zone before racing past the psychologically important mark to close 70 points higher at 34,011. Nifty on the NSE, too, closed at a record high at 10,532, showing a gain of 39 points .
The Bombay Stock Exchange , has been in existence since 1875, The SENSEX is an indicator of free-float market-weighted index of 30 well-established and financially sound companies listed on BSE.
Published since 1 January 1986, Sensex is regarded as the pulse of the domestic stock markets in India.
The base value of the Sensex is taken as 100 on 1 April 1979,
Here is a timeline on the rise of the Sensex:
100 April 1, 1979
1000 July 25, 1990
2000 January 15, 1992
3000 February 29, 1992
4000 March 30, 1992
5000 October 11, 1999
6000 February 11, 2000
7000 June 21, 2005
8000 September 8, 2005
9000 December 5, 2005
10000 February 7, 2006
11000 March 27, 2006
12000 April 20, 2006
13000 October 30, 2006
14000 December 5, 2006
15000 July 6, 2007
16000 September 19, 2007
17000 September 26, 2007
18000 October 9, 2007
19000 October 15, 2007
20000 December 11, 2007
21000 November 5, 2010
22000 March 24, 2014
23000 May 9, 2014
24000 May 13, 2014
25000 May 16, 2014
26000 July 7, 2014
27000 September 2, 2014
28000 November 12, 2014
29000 January 15, 2015
30000 March 04, 2015
31000 May 27, 2017
32000 July 13, 2017
33000 October 25, 2017
34000 December 26, 2017
