Market on Wednesday | Sensex up 324 pts, Nifty settles above 24,950, led by IT, financials
Indian benchmark indices extended the previous session gains with Nifty crossing 25,000 intraday on September 10, led by IT, financial, realty names. However, profit booking in auto and media stocks erased some of the intraday gains.
At close, the Sensex was up 323.83 points or 0.40 percent at 81,425.15, and the Nifty was up 104.5 points or 0.42 percent at 24,973.10. BSE midcap and smallcap indices rose 0.7% each.
Biggest Nifty gainers included Bharat Electronics, Wipro, HCL Technologies, Bajaj Finance, TCS, while losers were M&M, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto, Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors.
Among sectors, auto index slipped 1%, while IT index added 2.6%, PSU Bank index was up 2.2% and realty index rose 1%.