Sensex was up 137 points to trade at 34,266.85 while Nifty was trading above 10,500 mark. Monday's early trade gains were mostly by some buying witnessed in the metals, auto, realty and energy sectors - up between 0.8 per cent and 1.5 per cent. On the nifty index, the major gainers were, Tata Steel, UPL, Vedanta, Hindalco and Tata Motors. Japan's Nikkei led with an increase of 0.7 percent, pulling back from early gains of 1.2 percent, but Chinese blue chips slipped 0.5 percent. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six major rivals, was unchanged at 89.879.

Source: dna February 26, 2018 04:16 UTC