Tuesday, March 2, 2021
The markets in India extended their opening gains and were trading over 1 percent higher in today's(2nd March 2021) morning deals.
The S&P BSE Sensex traded 540 points up at 50,390 and the Nifty50 index was holding above the 14,900-mark. Bajaj Finance rose 2 percent and was the top Sensex gainer, followed by Tech Mahindra, HDFC Bank, Infosys, and Mahindra & Mahindra (all up 1%).
Among other individual stocks, BPCL rose 4 percent in early deals after the company said it will exit Numaligarh refinery in Assam by selling its entire stake to a consortium of Oil India Ltd and Engineers India Ltd for Rs 9,876 crore.
All the Nifty sectoral indices, barring the Nifty Metal index, traded higher, led by the Nifty IT index, up 1.3 percent.
