Sensex perks up; real estate, healthcare, baking top sectoral gainers

NEW DELHI: Among the sectoral indices on BSE, the BSE Realty index was trading higher by 2.38 per cent, followed by Healthcare (up 1.29 per cent), Bankex (up 0.97 per cent), IT (up 0.81 per cent), FMCG (up 0.74 per cent), TECk (up 0.63 per cent), Metal (up 0.59 per cent).

On the other hand, Oil & Gas, Consumer Durables and Auto were trading lower by 0.94 per cent, 0.16 per cent, 0.02 per cent, respectively.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 57.20 points up at 8936.80 in the afternoon trade around 12.40 pm (IST).

In the index, 32 stocks were trading in green, while 19 stocks were in red.

Shares of Neuland Labs, Tata Tele, Sobha Ltd, IVP Ltd, Gokul Agro Resources Ltd., Ginni Filaments, Sharda Motor, Dhanlaxmi Bank, Jaypee Infra, Jindal Saw, Dilip Buildcon Ltd., Jindal Worldwide hit their fresh 52-week highs in Wednesday 's trade, while JITF Infralogistics Ltd., Energy Deve Co, DB International, KSS Ltd, Shekhawati Poly, Birla Cotsyn, FCS Software, Rasoya Proteins, AstraZeneca touched their fresh 52-week lows.

The BSE Sensex was up 201.53 points at 28944.85 around the same time on account of buying in frontline bluechip counters.