At close, the Sensex was up 187.24 points or 0.51% at 36674.52, and the Nifty was up 36.00 points or 0.33% at 10799.70 supported by buying in financial and IT counters. About 1312 shares have advanced, 1374 shares declined, and 151 shares are unchanged. Bajaj Finance shares gained the most, followed by IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finance, Infosys and ICICI Bank and Bajaj Finserv. while losers included Adani Ports, Power Grid Corp, ITC, NTPC and Grasim Industries. Nifty Private Bank gained 2.4%. Nifty IT, up 1.85%. Nifty Bank, Nifty Financial Services, Nifty Auto, Nifty Media were among the other sectoral indices to end the day with gains. While metal, energy, infra, pharma and FMCG ended lower. BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices ended higher.