IST, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, advanced 118.15 points or 0.15% to 81,269.42. The Nifty 50 index added 16.60 points or 0.07% to 24,797.70.
Wall Street fell at the open, placing US equity indices on course for their first back-to-back decline in more than a month. The benchmark S&P 500 shed 0.4 per cent after the opening bell in New York.