New Delhi, March 17 -- Indian stock market extended the previous session's gain amid buying across the sectors barring FMCG, IT names. Nifty 50 closing above 23,550 level, and the Sensex was up 567.99 points.
At close, the Sensex was up 567.99 points or 0.75 percent at 76,070.84, and the Nifty was up 172.35 points or 0.74 percent at 23,581.15.
Among the sectors, Nifty Auto and Nifty Metal were leading while Nifty IT and Nifty FMCG lost the most.
FMCG was down 0.7 per cent, IT down by 1 per cent while all other indices ended in the green. Capital goods, telecom, auto, infra, media, metal, realty, private bank were up in the range of 1-2 percent.
On Nifty, the key gainers were Eternal, Tata Steel, M&M, HDFC Life and Bharat Electronics. On...