The benchmark BSE Sensex rose by about 131 points in early trade today, extending gains for the third session on continued foreign fund inflows amid encouraging quarterly results. Sectoral indices led by infrastructure, FMCG, healthcare, realty and banking were trading higher by up to 0.65 per cent. Reliance Industries was trading higher by 1.15 per cent ahead of earnings to be announced later in the day. FIIs bought shares a worth Rs 1,894.99 crore, while domstic institutional investors sold equities to the tune of Rs 657.46 crore yesterday, according to provisional data. Among other Asian markets, Japan's Nikkei was trading higher by 0.31 per cent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 0.07 per cent in their early deals.

Source: dna January 19, 2018 05:15 UTC