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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty climbed successful aboriginal commercialized connected Friday (May 15, 2026), supported by buying successful IT stocks and steadfast trends successful the U.S. markets.
The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 451.46 points, oregon 0.60%, to 75,850.18 successful greeting trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty roseate 143.25 points, oregon 0.60%, to 23,832.85.
Among the large gainers from the Sensex battalion were Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies, Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC Bank, PowerGrid, Bharti Airtel, Titan, Bajaj Finance, and Maruti Suzuki India.
On the different hand, Reliance Industries, State Bank of India, Eternal, Bharat Electronics Limited, UltraTech Cement, Mahindra & Mahindra, Trent and Asian Paints were the laggards.
Shares of lipid selling companies dropped much than 2% aft petrol and diesel prices were hiked by ₹3 per litre each connected Friday (May 15, 2026), the archetypal complaint summation successful much than 4 years, amid mounting losses of substance retailers owing to surging planetary crude prices.
"The determination to increase the terms of petrol and diesel by ₹3 per litre and CNG by ₹2 per kg bespeak that the authorities is playing it harmless done tiny increases, possibly signifier by stage, without triggering a crisp spike successful cost-push inflation. This is simply a invited step," V.K. Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist, Geojit Investments Limited, said. Brent Crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, roseate much than 1% to $107.01 per barrel.
In Asian markets, South Korea's KOSPI benchmark, Japan's Nikkei 225, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng traded lower, portion Shanghai's SSE Composite scale quoted successful the green. U.S. markets ended astir 1% higher successful overnight deals connected Thursday (May 14, 2026).
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) bought equities worthy ₹187.46 crore connected Thursday (May 14, 2026), and Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) purchased stocks for ₹684.33 crore, according to speech data.
On Thursday (May 14, 2026), the 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 789.74 points to adjacent astatine 75,398.72. Extending gains to the 2nd day, the 50-share NSE Nifty climbed 277 points to decorativeness astatine 23,689.60.
