Consumer goods stocks were trading with gains, with the S&P BSE Consumer Discretionary Goods & Services index rising 5.32 points or 0.12% at 4390.48 at 09:47 IST. Among the components of the S&P BSE Consumer Discretionary Goods & Services index, Borosil Renewables Ltd (up 9.98%), Mayur Uniquoters Ltd (up 8.94%),Just Dial Ltd (up 4.23%),Fiem Industries Ltd (up 4.03%),Saint-Gobain Sekurit India Ltd (up 3.84%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were L G Balakrishnan & Bros Ltd (up 3.3%), JTEKT India Ltd (up 2.67%), Monte Carlo Fashions Ltd (up 2.21%), Vaibhav Global Ltd (up 2.12%), and Dish TV India Ltd (up 2.1%). On the other hand, Cantabil Retail India Ltd (down 3.25%), Rupa & Company Ltd (down 3.07%), and Karda Constructions Ltd (down 2.44%) moved lower.
Sensex rose as much as 442 points to at an all-time high of 46,704.97
The S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 indexes closed at record highs for third day in a row paced by gains in Bharti Airtel, HDFC, ONGC, Titan and Asian Paints. The benchmarks staged a gap up opening and held on to gains on the back of a broad-based buying interest. The Sensex rose as much as 442 points to at an all-time high of 46,704.97 and Nifty 50 index climbed as much as 125 points to hit record high of 13,692.35. The markets have been hitting new highs on the back of record foreign flows into the Indian equities, analysts said.