As many as 50 smallcap stocks logged a double digit rise in their stock prices – in the range of 12-40 per cent last week, as the 30-share BSE Sensex ended October's second week with a modest gain of 0.5 per cent after five days of volatile sessions over geopolitical concerns arising on the Israel-Hamas conflict. Domestic benchmark equity indices slipped in the negative territory on Friday, October 13, session despite some intraday recoveries. In the last hour of the trade, index heavyweight stocks such as HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India, and Axis Bank witnessed major…