Share Market Updates Today: Indian equity benchmarks traded almost flat in Friday’s deals, dragged by automobile and consumer durables’ stocks. Asian shares edged higher today, in contrast with an overnight fall on Wall Street. All three major US stock indexes settled lower. Japan’s Nikkei index rose 0.11 per cent, South Korea’s KOSPI moved 0.61 per cent higher, the Shanghai Composite index slipped 0.11 per cent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index climbed 0.58 per cent. Back home, foreign institutional investors bought a net of Rs 618 crore worth of equities on Thursday, while domestic investors purchased Rs 449 crore of shares, provisional data on the National Stock Exchange showed.
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