The stock markets opened on a positive note on Thursday. The benchmark indices were in the green. Sensex zoomed past 49,000 mark in the pre-open session on Thursday morning while Nifty was above 14,700.
At 09:16 AM, the Sensex was up 172.65 points or 0.35 percent at 48850.20, and the Nifty was up 54.40 points or 0.37 percent at 14672.30.
The following companies will release their quarterly results today: Hero MotoCorp, Adani Power, Adani Transmission, Apcotex Industries, Blue Star, Caplin Point Laboratories, Century Textiles & Industries, Coforge, CreditAccess Grameen, Hindoostan Mills, ICRA, IIFL Finance, Jost’s Engineering, Ludlow Jute & Specialities, Procter & Gamble Health, Praj Industries, Raymond, Solara Active Pharma Sciences, Sundram Fasteners, Tata Consumer Products, Five X Tradecom, Foseco India, Hikal, Ashika Credit Capital and Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation.
Fuel prices were raised for the third day in a row on Thursday as state-owned fuel retailers resumed daily rate revision after a more than two-week-long hiatus during assembly elections in states like West Bengal. Petrol in the national capital now costs Rs 90.99 a litre and diesel comes for Rs 81.42 per litre. Rates have been increased across the country and differ from state to state depending on the incidence of value-added tax.
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