INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Domestic stock markets started Thursday's session on a choppy note as advances in banking stocks were offset by weakness in IT counters
and 10,721, compared with its previous day's close of 10,735.At 9:43 am, the Sensex was up 31 points at 35,787 and the Nifty at 10,739, up
were ICICI Bank, Grasim, GAIL, UltraTech Cement and ONGC, trading between 1.3 per cent and 2.4 per cent higher.Equities in other Asian
markets were steady near four-and-a-half-month highs after Federal Reserve minutes affirmed the US central bank would be "patient" on
Risk assets got a lift from hopes of further progress in US-China trade talks.MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan
was steady in early trade, hovering just off its highest since early October
Japan's Nikkei was down 0.3 per cent after closing at a two-month high during the previous session.On Wednesday, both benchmark indexes
snapped their longest losing streak of 2019 paced by gains in metal, IT and banking stocks
The Nifty climbed 1.2 per cent while the Sensex finished 1.1 per cent higher for the day.(With agency inputs)
