1. Budget Day - Sensex and Nifty Trends
S.No Date Presenter Sensex Nifty
% H-L % H-L
Return Spread Return Spread
1 15-Mar-96 Manmohan Singh (I) -1.26% 1.21% -0.94% 0.85%
2 22-Jul-96 P. Chidambaram 1.18% 1.93% 0.57% 1.00%
3 28-Feb-97 P. Chidambaram 1.90% 2.76% 0.59% 1.06%
4 1-Jun-98 Yashwant Sinha -1.19% 5.02% -0.88% 4.82%
5 27-Feb-99 Yashwant Sinha 5.13% 5.74% 4.26% 5.29%
6 29-Feb-00 Yashwant Sinha -5.12% 9.66% -3.93% 9.65%
7 28-Feb-01 Yashwant Sinha 4.36% 5.12% 4.31% 5.23%
8 28-Feb-02 Yashwant Sinha -3.87% 5.49% -3.96% 5.44%
9 28-Feb-03 Jaswant Singh 0.19% 1.44% 0.99% 1.42%
10 3-Feb-04 Jaswant Singh (I) -1.31% 2.98% -2.25% 3.43%
11 8-Jul-04 P. Chidambaram -2.26% 4.07% -3.11% 5.45%
12 28-Feb-05 P. Chidambaram 2.19% 2.68% 2.05% 2.86%
13 28-Feb-06 P. Chidambaram 0.86% 2.12% 0.24% 1.93%
14 28-Feb-07 P. Chidambaram -4.01% 3.89% -3.82% 5.95%
15 29-Feb-08 P. Chidambaram -1.38% 3.02% -1.17% 3.77%
16 16-Feb-09 P. Chidambaram (I) -3.42% 3.86% -3.39% 4.02%
17 6-Jul-09 P. Chidambaram -5.83% 8.16% -5.84% 8.37%
18 26-Feb-10 Pranab Mukherjee 1.08% 2.58% 1.29% 2.75%
19 28-Feb-11 Pranab Mukherjee 0.69% 3.26% 0.56% 3.17%
20 16-Mar-12 Pranab Mukherjee -1.19% 2.55% -0.18% 0.87%
21 28-Feb-13 P. Chidambaram -1.52% 2.81% -1.79% 3.14%
I => Interim Budget; % Return: With respect to its previous business day close
The above table analyses the performance on Sensex and Nifty on the budget day (last 21 budgets
covered) including today’s budget.