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Mumbai. After the rise in domestic stock markets last week, investors will keep an eye on global factors as well as the quarterly results of companies in the coming week. A lot will depend on what progress is made in the ongoing peace talks between America and Iran regarding the West Asia crisis.

Apart from this, the performance figures of eight main industry sectors at the domestic level in March are also going to come this week. Investors will also keep an eye on the quarterly results of big companies like HCL Technologies, Tech Mahindra, Trent, Infosys, Reliance Industries and Axis Bank.

Last week, there was a decline in the market on Monday and Thursday while a rise was seen on Wednesday and Friday. There was a holiday on Tuesday on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti. During the week, the BSE Sensex rose 943.29 points (1.22 per cent) and closed at a six-week high of 78,493.54.

The Nifty-50 index of the National Stock Exchange also reached 24,353.55 points with a weekly increase of 302.95 points or 1.24 percent. There was tremendous buying in medium and small companies. The Nifty Midcap-50 index jumped 3.42 percent and the Smallcap-100 index jumped 4.31 percent during the week.

Last week, shares of 24 out of 30 Sensex companies rose. Adani Ports had the highest gain of 6.64 percent. Weekly rise of 5.14 percent was recorded in Eternal, 5.11 percent in Power Grid, 4.96 percent in Tech Mahindra, 4.78 percent in Trent, 4.61 percent in BEL, 4.41 percent in Asian Paints, 3.97 percent in Hindustan Unilever, 3.51 percent in NTPC and 3.41 percent in L&T. Shares of Tata Steel closed up by 2.64 per cent, UltraTech Cement by 2.57 per cent, Kotak Mahindra Bank by 2.33 per cent, TCS by 2.27 per cent and Infosys by 2.03 per cent.

Shares of ICICI Bank gained 1.93 per cent, Indigo by 1.82 per cent, Bajaj Finserv by 1.66, State Bank of India by 1.28 per cent, Sun Pharma by 1.24 per cent and Reliance Industries by 1.11 per cent. Shares of ITC, Axis Bank and Titan also remained in the green. Mahindra & Mahindra had the highest weekly decline of 1.91 percent.

Maruti Suzuki shares fell 1.89 per cent, Bajaj Finance 1.70 per cent, HDFC Bank 1.30 per cent and Bharti Airtel 1.25 per cent. Shares of HCL Technologies also closed down.

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