Buy or sell, Nov. 17 -- The Indian stock market's benchmark indices - Sensex and Nifty 50 - ended Friday's see-saw trade in the green, extending their gains to the fourth straight session.

A positive turnaround in Q2 FY26 results, benign inflation and a victory for the NDA in the Bihar state election are among the factors that drove the indices higher. The BSE Sensex ended 84.11 points, or 0.10%, higher at 84,562.78, while the NSE Nifty went up 30.90 points, or 0.12%, to settle at 25,910.05.

In the broader market space, the trend was mixed as the BSE Midcap gauge fell 0.03% while the smallcap index went up 0.06%.

Vaishali Parekh, Vice President of Technical Research at Prabhudas Lilladher, said the bias for Nifty 50 remains strong, wit...