The markets have inched further higher in the last one-hour of trades. The Sensex is now up 207 points at 18,075. The Nifty has gained 63 points at 5431.
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(Updated at 1240 hrs)
The Sensex continues its goodrun with the index up 179 points at 18,047 and the Nifty up 55 points at 5422.
On the BSE Sectoral Indices - Bankex, Consumer Durables and Realty continue to dominate while IT and Health Care have pared gains. The Auto index too has pared considerable gains.
Bharti Airtel is up nearly 4% and it tops the gainers list on the Sensex followed by ICICI Bank, SBI, Reliance Infrastructure and Sterlite.
Mahindra & Mahindra down nearly 1% followed by HDFC Bank and Wipro.
The market breadth continues to be positive with 1,848 stocks advancing while 947 declines.
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