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New highs continue, some more to follow

It was a wild, volatile and eventful week which got extended into Saturday as well. Expiry happened on February 29, which was a leap day and till that event was over, markets were trading in negative territory for the week.

Sensex jumps 685 points; Infosys, HDFC Bank, HCL Technologies soar

The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex closed 684.64 points or 1.20 per cent higher at 57,919.97 points against its previous day's close at 57,235.33 points. Earlier, the Sensex started the day sharply higher at 58,162.74 points and surged to a high of 58,435.12 points in the intra-day. The Sensex pared part of the gains due to profit-taking in the last hour of the trade. It touched a low of 57,848.23 points in the intra-day.

What led Sensex to spike up 1335 points

"The mega-merger news of the HDFC twins and the rare sight of a 15 per cent up-move in them today at a point in time propelled benchmark indices 2.5 per cent higher with good support from metal stocks," said S. Ranganathan, Head of Research at LKP securities.