Stock market today, Feb. 5 -- After showing a strong bull trend on Tuesday, the Indian stock market remained sideways to positive on Wednesday. The Nifty 50 index ended 48 points higher at 25,776, while the BSE Sensex ended 79 points higher at 83,817. The Bank Nifty index finished 196 points higher at 60,238. Among sectors, the Consumer, Oil, and Gas indices rallied by more than 2%, whereas the IT index corrected sharply, shedding nearly 6%.

After strong profit-taking ahead of Wednesday's close, gold and silver rates today opened with a large upside gap on Thursday. By 6:30 AM, the COMEX gold is up over 1.25% and trading above the psychological $5,000/oz.

The COMEX silver rate today opened with a big upside and gained over 5% during the...