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Stock markets roseate for the 2nd consecutive time connected Thursday (May 14, 2026) with the benchmark Sensex jumping by astir 790 points successful a volatile session, driven by worth buying successful telecom, pharma and backstage banking shares.
The 30-share Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex jumped 789.74 points, oregon 1.06%, to adjacent astatine 75,398.72. The scale opened higher but slipped into antagonistic territory successful precocious greeting deals. However, worth buying successful telecom and banking shares helped the barometer pare losses and aboriginal leap much than 1,000 points to a precocious of 75,681.88.
Extending gains to the 2nd day, the 50-share National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE) Nifty climbed 277 points, oregon 1.18%, to decorativeness astatine 23,689.60.
Among Sensex firms, Bharti Airtel emerged arsenic the biggest gainer, rallying implicit 5% aft the telecom carrier's yearly gross crossed the ₹2 lakh crore people for the archetypal time.
Eternal roseate by 3.32% portion HDFC Bank precocious 2.67%, emerging arsenic the large contributor to the Sensex gains. Adani Ports, Sun Pharmaceuticals, Bajaj Finance, Mahindra & Mahindra, NTPC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Titan, Trent, UltraTech Cement, ITC and State Bank of India were among the different gainers.
On the different hand, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services, Hindustan Unilever, Axis Bank and Maruti Suzuki India ended lower.
"Indian equities staged a counterintuitive betterment from intraday lows and ended higher contempt the rupee hitting a grounds debased and crude remaining elevated," Vinod Nair, Head of Research, Geojit Investments Ltd., said.
Investor assurance was bolstered successful anticipation of imaginable authorities measures to mitigate INR weakness, including information of enslaved taxation alleviation for overseas investors and imaginable tightening of the Liberalized Remittance Scheme (LRS) to stem superior outflows, helium added.
"Sentiment was further anchored by affirmative cues from the Trump-Xi summit, which raised hopes of expanding economical cooperation.
"Sectorally, portion pharma and healthcare precocious owing to sectoral rotation, metals gained connected higher metallic prices and improving request expectations from China. Conversely, the IT stocks extended their decline," Mr. Nair said.
In Asian markets, ShanghaiStock Exchange (SSE) Composite scale and Japan's Nikkei 225 benchmark ended lower, portion Hong Kong's Hang Seng settled flat. However, South Korea's Kospi closed higher.
European equity markets traded successful affirmative territory. Wall Street ended mostly higher connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026).
Brent Crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, roseate astir 1% to $106.48 per barrel.
The rupee fell to a debased of 95.73 against the US dollar owed to precocious crude lipid prices and overseas money outflows.
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) sold equities worthy ₹4,703.15 crore connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026), portion Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) purchased stocks for ₹5,869.05 crore, according to speech data.
On Wednesday (May 13, 2026), the 30-share BSE Sensex roseate 49.74 points to settee astatine 74,608.98. The 50-share NSE edged higher by 33.05 points to extremity astatine 23,412.60.
