Final Trade: Indian equities end higher; Nifty ends tad higher below 25,000, Sensex gains 144 points

Indian equities ended higher amid losses successful the pharma and adjacent IT battalion which is acceptable to footwear Q2 net play aboriginal contiguous with TCS acceptable to denote Q2 results aboriginal today. Sensex astatine the adjacent was up 0.18 per cent oregon 144 points astatine 81,611.41 points, portion the Nifty 50 scale ended beneath 25,000 levels astatine 24,998.45, up 0.07 per cent  oregon 16.5 points higher.

Broader markets, meanwhile, ended mixed, with the smallcap Nifty Smallcap 100 ending successful the green, portion the Nifty Midcap 100 scale ended with mild weakness. Bank Nifty, however, led by HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Axis Bank ending with crisp gains.

Meanwhile, European markets traded successful the reddish up of the US CPI people aboriginal today.