Mumbai (Maharashtra), June 27 -- : Equity benchmark indices traded higher during early hours on Thursday in line with Asian stocks ahead of the meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
At 10:15 am, the BSE S&P Sensex was up 132 points at 39,735 while the Nifty 50 gained 35 points to 11,883. Except IT, pharma and PSU bank, all sectoral indices at the National Stock Exchange were in the positive zone.
Among stocks, Coffee Day Enterprises soared 4 per cent after reports said that Coca-Cola has entered exclusive talks to pick up a significant stake in the company.
Bharti Infratel traded nearly 2 per cent higher while Indiabulls Housing Finance was up 1.6 per cent. The others which showed gains were I...