<p>Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices rebounded in early trade on Thursday amid a rally in global markets and continuous foreign fund inflows.</p><p>Buying in IT stocks also added to the positive trend in equities.</p><p>The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 245.32 points to 80,170.09 in early trade. The NSE Nifty went up by 78.2 points to 24,402.65.</p>.Sensex tanks over 400 points on widespread profit booking.<p>Among the Sensex pack, Tata Consultancy Services climbed over 1 per cent ahead of its quarterly earnings announcement later in the day.</p><p>The other prominent gainers were HCL Technologies, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Maruti, Infosys and State Bank of India.</p><p>Power Grid, Nestle, Sun Pharma, HDFC Bank and Mahindra & Mahindra were among the laggards.</p>.<p>In Asian markets, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong were trading higher.</p><p>US markets ended significantly higher on Wednesday.</p><p>Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) bought equities worth Rs 583.96 crore on Wednesday, according to exchange data.</p>.<p>Global oil benchmark Brent crude climbed 0.76 per cent to USD 85.73 a barrel.</p><p>The BSE benchmark closed lower by 426.87 points or 0.53 per cent at 79,924.77 on Wednesday. The NSE Nifty dropped 108.75 points or 0.45 per cent to settle at 24,324.45.</p><p>Both the benchmark indices had hit their record high levels in opening deals on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices rebounded in early trade on Thursday amid a rally in global markets and continuous foreign fund inflows.</p><p>Buying in IT stocks also added to the positive trend in equities.</p><p>The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 245.32 points to 80,170.09 in early trade. The NSE Nifty went up by 78.2 points to 24,402.65.</p>.Sensex tanks over 400 points on widespread profit booking.<p>Among the Sensex pack, Tata Consultancy Services climbed over 1 per cent ahead of its quarterly earnings announcement later in the day.</p><p>The other prominent gainers were HCL Technologies, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Maruti, Infosys and State Bank of India.</p><p>Power Grid, Nestle, Sun Pharma, HDFC Bank and Mahindra & Mahindra were among the laggards.</p>.<p>In Asian markets, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong were trading higher.</p><p>US markets ended significantly higher on Wednesday.</p><p>Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) bought equities worth Rs 583.96 crore on Wednesday, according to exchange data.</p>.<p>Global oil benchmark Brent crude climbed 0.76 per cent to USD 85.73 a barrel.</p><p>The BSE benchmark closed lower by 426.87 points or 0.53 per cent at 79,924.77 on Wednesday. The NSE Nifty dropped 108.75 points or 0.45 per cent to settle at 24,324.45.</p><p>Both the benchmark indices had hit their record high levels in opening deals on Wednesday.</p>