TIL Desk/Business/Mumbai/ Equity benchmark indices traded over half a per cent up during early hours on Monday tracking positive global cues as tensions around China’s regulatory crackdown eased and the US showed progress on its infrastructure plan.
At 10:15 am, the BSE S&P Sensex was up by 307 points at 52,86493 while the Nifty 50 moved higher by 98 points to 15,860. All sectoral indices were in the positive terrain with Nifty realty gaining by 2.8 per cent, FMCG and pharma by 0.8 per cent each, and auto by 0.7 per cent.
Among stocks, Grasim surged by 3 per cent to Rs 1,598.25 per share while Adani Ports was up by 2.4 per cent. The other prominent gainers were Britannia, Titan, Axis Bank, SBI Life, Tata Consumer Products and UltraTech Cement. However, UPL lost by 1.7 per cent, Tata Steel 0.6 per cent and Wipro by 0.3 per cent.
