Sensex snaps 4-day losing run, up 345 pts; Nifty tops 16K; Auto, FMCG lead
Business StandardCLOSING BELL Stock market highlights: Benchmark indices moved sharply higher in the fag-end of the session, closing in the positive zone for the first time this week. Tata Consumer Products, Titan, Eicher Motors, HUL, Tata Motors, Maruti, M&M, Nestle India, HDFC, L&T, and BPCL topped the charts, rising over 2 per cent each. In the broader market, the BSE MidCap index added 0.85 per cent, driven by IDBI Bank, TVS Motors, BEL, Cummins India, and Cholamandalam Finance. On Wall Street, US stock futures rose around 0.2 per cent each, following a disappointing start to the second-quarter earnings season on Thursday. Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei advanced 0.54 per cent, South Korea's Kospi 0.4 per cent, but China's CSI300 slipped around 2 per cent.