The BSE Sensex was consistently hovering around the 17000 level and the Nifty around 5150 level in afternoon trade; both benchmarks gained 0.5% each. The Bank Nifty climbed 1% as private sector lender ICICI Bank rallied 1.5% while its rival HDFC Bank rose 1.4%.
The BSE benchmark moved up 84.31 points to 16,990.89 and the NSE benchmark was up 28.65 points at 5,149.45. Midcap and Smallcap indices were up 0.4% each.
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Country's largest software services exporters TCS and Infosys were up 1.5% and 1%, respectively.
Cigarette major ITC, engineering and construction major by sales Larsen & Toubro and housing finance company HDFC gained over 0.5%.
Among others, shares of Tata Steel, Sun Pharma, Coal India, NTPC, Hindalco and GAIL were up 1-1.5%.
However, top commercial vehicle maker Tata Motors fell 1.4% and utility vehicle manufacturer M&M lost 0.5%.
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