Sensex, Nifty On Track To Clock Five-Day Winning Streak Led By Banks

As of 2:37 pm, the Sensex traded 1.16 per cent or 139 points higher at 38,194 and the Nifty 50 index was 1.17 per cent or 132 points at 11,475.65. Seventeen of 19 sector gauges compiled by BSE were trading higher led by the S&P BSE Bankex Index's nearly 2 per cent gain. Information technology, power, utilities and finance indexes also rose between 2 and 1.5 per cent each. On the NSE, the Nifty Bank Index surged to an all-time hig...