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Chennai, India (BBN) - The benchmark BSE Sensex climbed over 200 points and the NSE index Nifty jumped over 10,300 on sustained buying by foreign funds and retail investors amid firm global cues.
At 9.35 a.m., the 30-share BSE index Sensex was up 183.01 points or 0.55 per cent at 33,433.31 and the 50-share NSE index Nifty was up 52.1points or 0.51 per cent at 10,317.75, reports The Hindu Business Line.
All BSE sectoral indices were trading in the positive zone. Among them, realty index gained the most by 0.82 per cent, followed by capital goods 0.73 per cent, auto 0.69 per cent and FMCG 0.62 per cent.
Top five Sensex gainers were Bharti Airtel (+1.74%), Axis Bank (+1.53%), ITC (+1.43%), State Bank of India (+1.41%) and Wipro (+1.32%), while the major losers were HUL (-1.01%), Bajaj Auto (-0.99%), Infosys (-0.5%), Kotak Bank (-0.19%) and NTPC (-0.06%).
Asian stocks were slightly higher with MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan up 0.2 per cent, staying above a recent two-month trough of 542.27 points amid optimism about global growth after the strong US payrolls data on Friday.
Japan’s Nikkei added 0.1 per cent, while Australian shares climbed 0.1 per cent. Chinese shares opened firm following solid trade data on Friday, with the blue-chip CSI 300 index up 0.1 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index gained 0.3 per cent.
On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index rose 74 points, or 0.31 per cent, to 24,285. The S&P500 index gained 9.82 points, or 0.37 per cent, to 2,646. The Nasdaq Composite index added 21.67 points, or 0.32 percent, to 6,834.
BBN/MMI/ANS