After lacklustre trading on Thursday, the two key equity benchmarks, Sensex and Nifty, on Friday rebounded sharply in the morning session. At 9.55 am, the BSE Sensex quoted 65,705, up 197 points. On the other hand, the NSE Nifty was trading at 19,592, up 68 points.
On the 30-share Sensex platform, NTPC has been the lead gainer, up 2.52 per cent. Tata Motors, L&T, SBI, ICICI Bank, Tata Steel were among the other gainers. On the downside, Infosys, Wipro, TCS, TechM, Asian Paints, HCL emerged losers.
#ABPLiveStockMarketWatch | Sensex and Nifty have been trading the green on Friday morning session.
At 09:55 AM, #Sensex went up by 197 points to 65,705 & #Nifty by 72 points to 19,595Here’s a look at the stocks in focus:#StockMarket #StockMarketPrices #Trading #Stock pic.twitter.com/HuDsIP5qlE
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In the broader markets, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices added 0.33 per cent and 0.24 per cent, respectively.
Sectorally, the Nifty Pharma and Metal indices advanced 1 per cent each, while the Nifty IT index fell 0.3 per cent.
In the previous session on Thursday, the S&P BSE Sensex plunged 610 points to 65,508. The NSE Nifty50 ended at 19,524, down 193 points.
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