NEW DELHI: Shares of Kesoram Industries (up 9.37 per cent), Igarashi Motors (up 8.70 per cent) and HFCL (up 7.43 per cent) jumped up to 9 per cent on NSE in Thursday's early session of trade.Stocks such as Hathway Cable (up 6.52 per cent), Sequent Scientific (up 6.47 per cent) and JK Tyre (up 6.32 per cent) were trading over 6 per cent higher at the same time.
Domestic stock benchmarks Sensex and Nifty were in the positive terrain in early trade on Thursday as investor sentiment got a boost after India raised import duty on 19 products in an attempt to strengthen Indian rupee.The rupee on Thursday opened 20 paise higher at 72.41 against dollar.The NSE Nifty index was trading 30 points up at 11,083, while the BSE Sensex was up 114 points at 36,656 around 09:35 am.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 30 were trading with gains and 20 were incurring losses at that time.Ultratech Cement, GAIL, Asian Paints, Titan and Vedanta were among the top gainers in the Nifty index.Indiabulls Housing Finance, Bajaj Finance, Indian Oil Corporation, HDFC and Dr.
Reddy's Laboratories were among the top losers in the Nifty pack of stocks.