Market live updates: The domestic equities on Friday added to their decent early gains and were trading nearly half a per cent higher.
Among headline indices, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 200 points at 47,950 levels and testing the 48,000-mark. Meanwhile, the Nifty50 index was trading above the 14,000-mark. Mahindra & Mahindra rose 2 per cent and was the top Sensex gainer, followed by TCS, State Bank of India, and ONGC (all up over half a per cent).
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The trend among Nifty sectoral indices was largely positive, with Nfty PSU Bank index, up 1.2 per cent, leading the list of gainers.
In the broader markets, the S&P BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices were trading 0.5 per cent higher, each.
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