LIVE market updates: The Indian markets added to their early gains in Friday’s late morning deals, with IT stocks and private banks doing majority of the lifting.
The S&P BSE Sensex traded 200 points up at 51,720, and the broader Nifty50 index topped 15,200. ITC fell 3 per cent after announcing its December quarter results and was the top Sensex laggard. On the other hand, IT stocks, including Infosys, HCL Tech, and Tech Mahindra ticked up 1 per cent, each.
The trend among Nifty sectoral indices was mixed, with the Nifty IT index, up 1.1 per cent, leading the gainers.
In the broader markets, the S&P BSE MidCap index fell 0.3 per cent while the SmallCap index rose 0.2 per cent.