The two key equity benchmarks, Sensex and Nifty, on Wednesday opened higher in early trade tracking mixed global sentiment. At 9.45 am, the S&P BSE Sensex jumped 152 points to 62,945. On the other hand, the NSE Nifty50 was trading 18,658, up 60 points.
On the 30-share Sensex platform, Nestle, PowerGrid, L&T, Axis Bank, Wipro, Infosys, HUL, TCS were among the lead gainers. On the flipside, HCL, Bajaj Finance, M&M, Kotak Bank, Tata Motors, M&M, Titan emerged losers. Among individual stocks, shares of Torrent Power soared over 7 per cent after the company signed an MoU with the Government of Maharashtra to develop three pumped storage hydro projects of 5,700 MW capacity.
In the broader markets, Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 indices climbed up to 0.5 per cent.
All the sectoral indices are trading in the green, with Nifty IT, Nifty Realty, and Nifty Consumer Durables indices gaining up to 0.4 per cent.
In the previous session on Tuesday, the S&P BSE Sensex ended 5 points higher at 62,793. On the other hand, the Nifty50 saw gains of 5 points at 18,599.