The Sensex continued to trade in positive terrain on account of heavy buying activity in key stocks and also because of positive trend in European market.

Oil & gas, auto and FMCG stocks attracted good buying support, while teck and IT were trading weak.

The BSE Midcap index climbed up 1.15% while BSE Smallcap index surged 0.60%.

The 30-share index Sensex, today, belled the day after making a gain of 101.36 points at 16,908.02.

At 02.09 p. m., Sensex gained 130.63 points at 16,937.29. It hit a high of 16,998.52 and a low of 16,775.36. On the other hand, Nifty surged 38.55 points at 5,024.30 after touching a high of 5,043.05 and a low of 4,971.75.

On the sectoral front, the BSE Oil & Gas that surged 2.63%, FMCG climbed 2.21%, Auto advanced 2.15%, Power zoomed 1.97% and Metal climbed 1.70%, whereas BSE TECk declined 2.26% and IT was down by 1.67%.

The top gainers in the 30-share index included Tata Motors (6.00%), Rel Infra (4.06%), ONGC (3.50%), Tata Steel (3.27%), HUL (2.97%) and ITC (2.61%).

The major losers in the Sensex included Bharti Airtel (5.09%), RCom (4.37%), TCS (3.30%), Sun Pharma (2.64%), Infosys (1.66%) and Wipro (1.59%).

European stocks went up as Alcoa announced third- quarter results that beat analysts' estimations and Australian employment figure climbed unexpectedly.

UK's benchmark index FTSE 100 zoomed 47.16 points to trade at 5,156.19. French benchmark index CAC 40 climbed 55.69 points to trade 3,812.25. Germany's benchmark index DAX increased
74.03 points to trade at 5,715.55 (2.10 pm).