NEW DELHI: Mirroring the positive sentiment of the domestic equity market, shares of Skipper (up 11.51 per cent) and PTC India Financial Services (up 10.65 per cent) surged over 10 per cent on NSE in Monday's session.Stocks such as Mangalore Chemicals Fertilizers (up 9.46 per cent), Sequent Scientific (up 8.58 per cent), K.P.R.
Mill (up 6.74 per cent), Hindustan Media (up 6.65 per cent), Weizmann Forex (up 6.65 per cent), HCC (up 6.64 per cent), Larsen Toubro (up 6.30 per cent) and Honeywell Auto (up 6.22 per cent) were trading over 6 per cent higher around the same time.
Indian equity market registered a positive opening on Monday morning, following a tepid rise in Asian shares.Investors were eyeing how US-China talks pan out, while keenly observing the movement of Turkish lira and Chinese yuan.
Nifty breached 11,500-mark for the first time and around 10:10 am, it was trading 71 points up at 11,542.15, while the BSE Sensex was up 304 points at 38,251.93.As many as 35 stocks were in the green in the Nifty index and 15 were in the red.
In the Sensex kitty, 24 were advancing while 7 were declining.
Larsen Toubro, Tata Motors, ONGC, YES Bank and Coal India were among the top gainers, while Infosys, GAIL (India), Titan Company, Eicher Motors and Grasim Industries were among the top losers in the Nifty index.