Crude crash, US midterm wave send Nifty surging past 24,300

Benchmark indices opened sharply higher on Thursday, with the Nifty 50 jumping 400 points to 24,360.70 and the Sensex surging 1,418.56 points, or 1.84 per cent, to 78,719.96, as a near 10 per cent crash in crude oil prices and a decisive US midterm election outcome fuelled a broad-based rally across sectors. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/topic/nifty/ https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/topic/sensex/ The Sensex had closed the previous session at 77,301.40 and opened at 78,910.94, while the Nifty, which had closed at 23,960.60, opened at 24,378.05, extending its winning streak to a sixth consecutive session.