Markets end in green, Nifty above 10,900

New Delhi: Reversing intra-day losses, markets ended in green on Thursday.

The BSE Sensex rose 52.79 points to finish at 36,374.08 while the NSE Nifty was up 14.90 points to 10,905.20.

Investors were catious ahead of the third quarter results by Reliance Industries and Hindustan Uniliver, which analysts believe, pulled down stocks intra-day.

In the Sensex pack, Axis Bank, HCL Tech, M&M, TCS, HDFC, Kotak Bank, PowerGrid, Hero MotoCorp and Vedanta were among the top gainers, rising up to 1.91 percent.

Sun Pharma was the biggest loser, cracking 5.78 percent.

Other laggards were Yes Bank, SBI, Bajaj Finance, Tata Steel, Bharti Airtel and ONGC, declining up to 3.31 percent.

RIL and HUL declined up to 1.12 percent ahead of their quarterly results.

On a net basis, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) sold shares worth Rs 90.10 crore Wednesday, while domestic institutional investors (DIIs) were net buyers to the tune of Rs 304.27 crore, provisional data available with BSE showed.

With Agency Inputs