The Sensex and the Nifty have extended the early afternoon gains with the Nifty50 adding 101 points, trading at 10965 while the Sensex jumped 269 points and was trading at 36,332 mark.
Nifty Auto was the outperforming sector led by Tata Motors and Eicher Motors which jumped 7 percent each followed by Ashok Leyland, Hero MotoCorp, Maruti Suzuki and Motherson Sumi Systems.
From the metal space, the top gainers were Jindal Stainless, Hindustan Copper, MOIL, NALCO, SAIL, Tata Steel and APL Apollo.
Nifty PSU Bank was up over 2 percent led by gains from PNB, IDBI Bank, Central....More>>>