Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (l) with Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian in New Delhi. Pic/PTI

Markets continued their upward movement last week, even though the rate of change seems to have slowed down. The BSESENSEX gained 93.73 points or 0.33 per cent to close the week at 28,334.75 points, while NIFTY gained 52.60 points or 0.60 per cent to close at 8,793.55 points. The broader markets saw BSE100, BSE200 and BSE500 gain 0.62 per cent, 0.75 per cent and 0.79 per cent respectively. BSEMIDCAP gained 1.385 while BSESMALLCAP gained 1.34 per cent. The top sectoral gainer was BSECONDUR up 5.20 per cent followed by BSEIT 3.83 per cent and BSETECH 3.63 per cent. The losers were led by BSEMETAL down 1.64 per cent followed by BSEHEACARE 0.77 per cent and BSEPSU 0.18 per cent.