MARKET LIVE: Sensex up 250 points; realty, IT, auto stocks in focus

LIVE market live updates: The Indian equity markets added to their early gains and were trading half a per cent higher, lifted by auto, tech, and pharma stocks.

The S&P BSE Sensex hovered around 46,230 levels, up 220 points, and the Nifty50 index was testing the 13,550 mark. Tech stocks, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech, and TCS (all up 1%) were the top Sensex gainers. On the other hand, ONGC, down 2 per cent, fell the most, while index heavweights Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank were also down half a per cent, each.

Among other individual stocks, Wipro gained nearly 3.5 per cent after announcing the commencement date for its Rs 9,500-crore share buyback programme.

The Nifty sectoral indices were trading mixed, with Nifty Realty index, up 3 per cent, leading the list of gainers.