Market Now: Sensex, Nifty firm; these stocks zoomed up to 20 %

NEW DELHI: Global Offshore (20 per cent), Mazda Ltd (19.99 per cent), Sakuma Exports (19.99 per cent), Beta Drugs (19.76 per cent) and Sterling Bio (17.39 per cent) zoomed up to 20 per cent on NSE in Thursday's trade.

Stocks such as Malu Paper Mill (14.87 per cent), Shekhawati Poly (14.29 per cent), Bartronics (13.86 per cent), Muthoot Capital (13.02 per cent), Uniply Ind (12.32 per cent) and Tirupati Forge (12.07 per cent) surged over 12 per cent.

The equity benchmarks Nifty and Sensex remained firm, backed by buying in FMCG, metal, pharma, telecom and realty stocks as domestic investors showed buying interest ahead of key industrial output numbers to be released later in the day.

The Nifty50 index was trading 29 points up at 10,013, while the BSE Sensex was 75 points up at 31,909 around 1.20 pm (IST).

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Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, Sundaram Fastener, Hindalco Industries and Sterlite Technologies were among the stocks that hit fresh all-time high in Thursday's trade.

However, most of the PSU bank stocks such as Oriental Bank of Commerce, Bank of India, Canara Bank and Bank of Baroda tanked during Thursday's afternoon session, dragging the Nifty PSU Bank index lower.