Sensex maintains uptrend on positive global cues

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The Sensex started the day on a positive note following uptrend in global cues and continued its yesterday's late trade run up further. Oil & gas exploration, banking, auto, realty, cement and power stocks were seeing buying interest whlie technology stocks were down on profit booking.

At 9:02 hours IST, the 50-share NSE Nifty was trading at 5,257, up 23 points and the 30-share BSE Sensex was at 17,574, up 65 points. The CNX Midcap rose 57 points to 7,744 and the BSE Smallcap up 85 points to 8,909. About 746 shares advanced while 83 shares declined on the NSE.

Among the frontliners, Unitech, DLF, Reliance Industries, ONGC, ACC, Ambuja Cements, HCL Tech, Tata Steel, SAIL, SBi, PNB, ICICI Bank, M&M, Hero Honda and Cairn were witnessing buying interest.

Infosys and TCS were down 0.5%r HDFC, Hindalco and L&T also

Midcap & Smallcap Space:

Supreme Industries, Texmaco and Gallantt Metal surged 3-5% post positive numbers.

REC gained 0.8% on good numbers.

Aftek, Sasken Communication and Mindtree were up 1-4%.

Prism Cement and Binani Cement rallied 5% each. India Cement rose 1.5%.

Clutch Auto rose 5% and Fame India gained 3%.

Global cues:

Asian markets were trading higher. Hang Seng, Jakarta, Nikkei, Straits Times, Kospi and Taiwan gained 0.4-1%. However, Shanghai was down just 0.2%.

The US markets hit a fresh 15-month closing high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 53.5 points at 10,680.7. The Nasdaq Composite was up 26 points at 2,308 and the S&P 500 up 9.5 points at 1,146.