Benchmark indices began the day with a slightly negative bias led by a drop in Infosys and Hindustan Unilever, but recovered ground quickly.

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Other Nifty stocks that gained were Wipro and Mahindra and Mahindra. Sun Pharma which saw some recovery in trade on Wednesday fell again.

Cairn India which had slumped to a 52 week low despite the indices trading at a three month high managed to recover some ground and was up 4 per cent.

Banking stocks were having a quiet session with ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank trading flat. Mid cap stocks were having a good session with KPIT surging 8 per cent and Apollo Tyres up 4 per cent.

Concor, however, lost ground and was trading 3 per cent lower.

Meanwhile, markets across Asia were trading with good gains with the Shanghai Composite up 1.6 per cent and the Hang Sang up almost one per cent.

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