Seventeen out of 30 Sensex stocks finished the session higher.
Domestic stock markets rose for the third straight session on Thursday after inflation eased sharply in November and new RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das' move to open up a dialogue with lenders boosted financial stocks..Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark index Sensex closed at 35,929.64, up 150.57 points or 0.42 per cent from the previous close, and the Nifty50 index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) fell 53.95 points or 0.50 per cent to end at 10,791.55. Except media stocks, all the sectoral indices closed in the positive terrain.