Circumspect market behaviour following global cues saw the Nifty and the Sensex trading marginally higher.
At 11.05 a.m., the 30-share BSE index Sensex was up 14.98 points or 0.06 per cent at 24,621.97 and the 50-share NSE index Nifty was down 2.3 points or 0.03 per cent at 7,473.30.
Except banking, all other BSE sectoral indices were trading in the green. Among them, realty index gained the most by 1.49 per cent, followed by PSU 1.34 per cent, oil & gas 0.87 per cent and metal 0.86 per cent, while banking index was down 0.21 per cent.
Top five Sensex gainers were Tata Motors (+2.65%), Cipla (+2.63%), Dr Reddy's (+2.6%), ONGC (+2.56%) and BHEL (+2.52%), while the major losers were Maruti (-2.00%), Adani Ports (-1.48%), HDFC Bank (-1.41%), Wipro (-1.08%) and Axis Bank (-1.07%).
Sensex trading flat; realty index jumps 1.5%, PSU 1.34% | Business Line