INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The stock markets started Thursday's
session on a positive note, with the BSE Sensex rising 133 points
Gains were led by buying witnessed in IT stocks, with the Nifty IT up around 1.5 per cent in early deals
National Stock Exchange (NSE) benchmark index Nifty advanced as much as 38 points to trade above the key 10,450 level
Thirty four stocks on the Nifty 50 were trading in the positive zone
Investors fretted about new setbacks in US-China trade talks, but negative sentiment was tempered by Federal Reserve meeting minutes
flat, while Japan's Nikkei stock index was 0.6 per cent lower.Overnight on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.21 per cent
to 24,886.81, the SP 500 gained 0.32 per cent to 2,733.29 and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.64 per cent to 7,425.96.At 9:21 am, the Nifty was
trading 30 points higher at 10,460.