NEW DELHI: Tata Motors (Rs 501.17 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in terms of value on NSE in morning trade on Thursday.Jet Airways (Rs 244.94 crore), PC Jeweller (Rs 237.45 crore), Vedanta (Rs 165.99 crore), State Bank of India (Rs 157.01 crore), Infosys (Rs 134.90 crore), Tata Steel (Rs 113.25 crore) and Strides Shasun (Rs 110.61 crore) also appeared among the most active stocks in value terms of NSE.Market registered a positive opening underpinned by gains in IT, financial and bank stocks following overnight gains in the Wall Street.US stocks ended with small gains on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest meeting suggested higher inflation may not result in faster interest rate hikes, Reuters reported.
The NSE Nifty index was trading 23 points up at 10,453, while the BSE Sensex was up 112 points at 34,457 around 09:40 am.In the Nifty index, 25 stocks were trading with gains, while 25 were suffering losses.
Infosys, HCL Technologies, Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services and HDFC were leading the pack of Nifty gainers.On the other hand, Tata Motors, HPCL, BPCL, ONGC, GAIL (India) and Vedanta were leading among Nifty losers.