The equity benchmark indexes started in green on Thursday’s trade session, after retail inflation for November came down to almost one-and-a-half year low.
At 10:03 am, the Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange traded at 36029.54, with a gain of 250.47 points or 0.70%, while the NSE Nifty50 was at 10,810.75, up 73.15 points or 0.68%.
Out of 50 Nifty stocks, forty-four traded in green.
The top five gainers in the Nifty pack were Indiabulls Housing Finance, Indian Oil, Tata Motors, State Bank of India and Yes Bank.
In the global markets, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan surged over 0.2% in Asian market after the US stocks ended the last session higher.
The Indian rupee also strengthened at the interbank foreign exchange market as the global trade tensions improved.
The home currency stood strong at 71.70 to the greenback, as compared to its previous close of 72.01.
Meanwhile, the 30-share Sensex closed at 35,779, mounting 629 points, or 1.8%, while the broader Nifty50 gained 188 points to settle at 10,737.
-Harleen Sandhu
