Share Market Live: Sensex\, Nifty open higher; Hero MotoCorp\, Asian Paints\, Bharti Airtel top gainers

Share Market Live: Sensex, Nifty open higher; Hero MotoCorp, Asian Paints, Bharti Airtel top gainers

Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty started on a positive note on Monday ahead of RBI's monetary policy outcome to be announced on Thursday.

Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty started on a positive note on Monday ahead of RBI's monetary policy outcome to be announced on Thursday.

Here's a look at live updates for the Indian share market today.

9: 34 am: Hero MotoCorp (2.37%), Asian Paints (2.20%) and Bharti Airtel (1.64%) were the top Sensex gainers.

9: 33 am: Top Sensex losers were YES Bank (1.08%), Tata Motors (0.99%) and Maruti (0.67%).

9: 32 am: On Friday, Sensex fell 117 points to close at 39,714, with 18 components out of 30 trading on the red on the BSE. Similarly, at the closing bell, the broader index Nifty ended at 11,922 level, down by 23 points on NSE.

9: 30 am: Mid cap and small cap indices were trading 7 points and 0.75 points higher in early trade.

9: 25 am : Market breadth was negative with 615 stocks trading higher compared to 675 falling on the BSE.

9: 21 am: FMCG and oil and gas stocks led the gains with their BSE indices rising 111 points and 50 points, respectively.

9: 20 am: On a net basis, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) bought shares worth a net of Rs 676.15 crore on Friday, and domestic institutional investors (DIIs) were net buyers to the tune of Rs 394.09 crore, provisional data available with BSE showed.

9: 15 am : While Sensex rallied over 90 points to 36,804 in early trade, Nifty climbed 33 points to 11,954 .