*Here are some very interesting facts about Sensex compiled exclusively for Indian Stock market Investors

The term 'Sensex' was coined by the Pune based stock market analyst Deepak Mohoni.

The BSE Sensex was launched on January 1st, 1986.

On the launch day, the index closed at 549.43 points.

It's lifetime intraday high was 30,024.74 logged on March 4, 2015 while the closing high was 29,380.73 on the same day.

The Sensex has seen 7,203 trading days since its launch till June 30, 2016.

There were 3,768 up days and 3,434 down days for the index.

Historically, Tuesdays were the worst performing day of the week for the benchmark, while Fridays were the best.

The Sensex first passed 
1,000 points on July 25th, 1990. 
10,000 points in February, 2006 20,000 points in December, 2007.

In just 17 trading days, between September and October 2007 the Sensex gained nearly 3,000 points.

Out of the original 30 companies only six are in the index now Reliance Industries, ITC, Hindustan Unilever (HLL then), Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Steel.

by Navneet Singhal