Leaders Online Desk: The Indian stock market opened on a bullish note on Friday (Dec. 10) due to positive global cues. Sensex rose 500 points to close to 72,900 in early trade. While the Nifty is trading at 22,100 thousand up by 150 points. Auto and energy stocks are leading the bullish market.
On Thursday, the Sensex closed down 1,062 points at 72,404. Nifty fell by 345 points to settle at 21,957. Meanwhile, Sensex and Nifty recovered from yesterday's decline today.
On the Sensex, ITC, Asian Paints, JSW Steel, NTPC, Power Grid, Axis Bank, Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma, IndusInd Bank, Nestle India, Hindustan Unilever, Bajaj Finserv gained 1-2 percent. While the shares of Infosys, HCL Tech, LT have fallen.
BPCL, ITC, Asian Paints, JSW Steel, NTPC are top gainers on Nifty. While the shares of LTIMindtree, Infosys, Grasim are falling.
In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index rose 1 percent. Indices in China are also bullish. Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 1 percent. It hit an eight-month high in early trade.
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