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Nifty trades above 9,200 amid positive Asian markets

Tracking positive Asian markets, domestic benchmark indices were trading with marginal gains in the first half of trade on Monday with…

Nifty trades above 9,200 amid positive Asian markets

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Tracking positive Asian markets, domestic benchmark indices were trading with marginal gains in the first half of trade on Monday with Capital Goods index leading the rally.

At 11.15 am, the Sensex was trading 169 points or 0.57 per cent higher at 29,789 while the Nifty50 was trading 31 points or 0.34 per cent up at 9,204.

Broader markets outperformed the front liners. BSE Midcap index gained 0.5 per cent while BSE Smallcap Midcap index surged by 0 per cent.

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Among the BSE sectoral indices, Capital Goods index registered the biggest gain with a jump of 2 per cent. Consumer Durables (up 1.2 per cent), Oil & Gas (up 0.8 per cent) and FMCG (up 0.5 per cent) indices were other notable gainers. Telecom and Teck indices slipped 1.7 per cent and 0.8 per cent respectively.

Top gainers in the Sensex-30 pack: Reliance Industries (up 3.8 per cent), L&T (up 2.9 per cent), Gail (up 2.6 per cent), HDFC (up 1.2 per cent) and Tata Steel (up 1.1 per cent).

Top losers in the Sensex-30 pack: Bharti Airtel (down 2.9 per cent), Wipro (down 1.3 per cent), Infosys (down 0.9 per cent), Bajaj Auto (down 0.9 per cent) and TCS (down 0.4 per cent).

Asian markets were trading in the positive zone. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index surged 0.8 per cent, Singapore’s Straits Times Index increased 0.2 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.1 per cent, Korea’s KOSPI index jumped 0.3 per cent and China’s Shanghai Composite Index surged 0.4 per cent.

Back home, the Rupee was trading seven paisa higher at 65.02 against the US Dollar.

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