The broader Topix ended 1.23% higher to its strongest level since March 9.Ĭhina stocks rose on Friday ahead of an expected record-high travel rush over the Labour Day holiday, with information technology (IT) and financials shares leading the gains.Ĭhina's blue-chip CSI300 Index closed up 1%, while the Shanghai Composite Index finished 1.1% higher. Japan's Nikkei share average rose to an eight-month high after the Bank of Japan left its ultra-easy monetary policy settings unchanged, adding to the boost from a series of strong domestic earnings. JSW Steel, Titan and ONGC also featured among the laggards in today's session.Īsian stocks enjoyed solid gains on Friday after a big finish on Wall Street, with renewed investor confidence and strong earnings by major industry players driving shares up. Axis Bank shed 2.4% after a disappointing earnings. Consumer Durable remained the only sector to have declined as it shed 0.3%.Īdani Enterprises, Adani Ports, Britannia, Nestle and Wipro topped the Nifty stock chart and gained more than 2.5% each. IT and Media also registered more than a per cent gain each. PSU Bank jumped almost 2.5% and led the rally. Fourteen out of 15 Nifty broad sectoral indices ended with gains. S&P BSE Sensex jumped 463 points to close above 61,000, at 61,112. Nifty 50 reclaimed the 18,000 mark and ended at 18,065, a jump of 150 points. Markets were initially dragged by financials after Axis Bank's weaker-than-expected March quarter result, but a rally in PSU Bank and IT stocks along with positive global cues helped indices end in the green with solid gains. Sensex and Nifty rose more than 2% this week. Indian shares started on a muted but picked up steam and ended with gains for 8th session in a row thanks to a late rally. He managed 84.37m and 85.62m in his fifth and sixth attempts., 03:40:25 PM IST Indices end the week strongly thanks to a final-hour rally as Sensex ends 460 pts higher and Nifty 150 pts Reigning world champion Anderson Peters, who had won the event here last year with a monster throw of 93.07m, finished third with a modest best throw of 85.88m.Ĭhopra, who has a personal best of 89.94m, could not sustain the tempo of his first attempt as he could only send the spear to 86.04m and then to 85.47m before fouling his throw in the fourth. He had also won a silver in the Doha Diamond League last year with a 90.88m throw. Vadlejch had also won silver in the Tokyo Olympics. Silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic went agonisingly close to Chopra's best mark with a second round throw of 88.63m, four centimeter short of the Indian's effort. He had finished fourth in his first appearance here in 2018. He maintained the lead till the end to win the event in his second appearance at the Qatar Sports Club. The 25-year-old Chopra, who had pocketed the 2022 Diamond League Final trophy in Switzerland in September last, beat a star-studded field with a best throw of 88.67m to begin his season in style.Ĭhopra hit his straps in his first attempt itself with a world-leading throw of 88.67m, which was his fourth career-best effort to position himself on the top of the pile. Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra began his Diamond League title defence with a comfortable win in the season-opening leg in doha on Friday, with a world leading and fourth career-best effort.
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