Indian stock markets on Wednesday ended with gains as Nifty reclaimed the 24,000 mark, supported by strong buying in IT, realty and banking stocks. At close, the Sensex was up 790.54 points or 1.04 percent at 76,991.22, and the Nifty was up 197.55 points or 0.83 percent at 24,021.65.Nifty midcap index rose 0.10 percent and smallcap index gained 0.4 percent. The overall market capitalisation of firms listed on the BSE rose to over Rs 476 lakh crore from Rs 475 lakh crore in the previous session.Among the sectoral indices, the key names in green were Information Technology and realty up 2% each, while Private Bank index up 1.8%. Auto, Energy, Metal, Power were the ones in red. On Nifty, the biggest gainers were Interglobe Aviation, Adani Enterprises, Tech Mahindra, Trent, Bajaj Finance, while losers included Bajaj Auto, NTPC, ONGC, Tata Steel and Bharat Electronics.More than 140 stocks touched their 52-week high on the BSE. These included KPR Mill, Aether Industries, Caplin Point Laboratories, Welspun Living, FSN E-Commerce Ventures (Nykaa), Apar Industries, ZF Commercial Vehicle Control Systems India, Aurobindo Pharma, Zydus Lifesciences, Gujarat Fluorochemicals, Laurus Labs and Schneider Electric Infrastructure, among others.Indian rupee ended marginally higher at 94.65 against the US dollar, compared with its previous close of 94.73. Textile stocks witnessed heavy buying. Shares of SP Apparels, Pearl Global Industries, Indo Count Industries, KPR Mill, Arvind, Welspun Living, Trident, and Faze Three closed with gains ranging between 5% and 17%.Among the banking stocks, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and IndusInd Bank were the leaders. Oil stocks like HPCL, BPCL, IOCL, IndiGo, and Himadri Specialty Chemicals also closed in the green.
