Market update: Sensex moves up 26 pts in early trade

Furthermore, expectations of encouraging earnings from few more blue-chip companies influenced sentiment, they added.

Among other Asian markets, Japan’s Nikkei was trading higher by 0.94 per cent, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.49 per cent in their early deals. The Shanghai Composite index was down by 0.06 per cent.

The US Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.11 per cent lower in yesterday’s trade.

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