Buy or sell stocks, Oct. 11 -- The key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market extended their uptrend for the second straight session on Friday, with the Nifty 50 index crossing the 25,300 mark intraday - its highest level since September 19th. After a muted start, the market maintained a positive bias through the session, enabling the Nifty to reclaim the 25,300 level, driven by broad-based buying across sectors, except metals. At close, the Sensex was up 328.72 points or 0.40 per cent at 82,500.82, and the Nifty was up 103.55 points or 0.41 per cent at 25,285.35. On a weekly basis, both the BSE Sensex and Nifty posted gains of 1.5 per cent each.

The broader markets moved in tandem with the benchmarks, as the Midcap index advanced ...