After spectacular comeback rally yesterday, the markets continued its roaring momentum and opened on rocking note today on the back strong cues from the global markets. Asian markets are trading extremely buoyant today following tear away performance of US markets.

There was euphoria seen all around and no stocks opened in red in Sensex and Nifty. Metal, IT and realty stocks were roaring in the opening trade and the market breadth was extremely positive.

At 9:56 am, Sensex was up 180 points at 15272 and Nifty was up 51 points 4497. Major gainers in the opening trade were Reliance, Infosys, Bajaj Auto, GMR Infra, Rel Comm, Sterlite, DLF, Hindalco, ICICI Bank, Satyam, Tata Steel and Tata Motors.

Asian Markets: Records fell across Asia on today, buoyed by a strong overnight rally on Wall Street, with indices in South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan hitting intraday highs. Hong Kong's Hang Seng surged 1.86% or 430.90 points at 23,232.71, Japan's Nikkei gained 1.40% or 251.01 points at 18,235.15, Taiwan's Taiwan Weighted rose 1.16% or 108.64 points at 9,463.05, Singapore's Straits Times surged 1.29% or 46.73 points at 3,671.29 and South Korea's Seoul Composite advanced 1.90% or 36.28 points at 1,946.03.

US markets:

The Dow shot up 283.86 points, or 2.09%, to 13,861.73; its previous record close, which also came June 4, was 13,676.32. Thursday's jump was the biggest one-day percentage gain for the blue chip index since October 2003 and the biggest single-session point gain since October 2002. The Dow also reached a new trading high of 13,869.94 and saw its 50th record close since the start of October.

The Nasdaq composite index rose 49.94 points, or 1.88%, to 2,701.73; the rise Thursday marked the biggest one-day percentage increase since March. The last time the Nasdaq closed at such levels was in February 2001. Still, the index, bloated by the late 1990s tech boom, is nowhere near its closing record of 5,048.62, set in March 2000.

Market cues:

* FIIs net buy USD 89.2 mn in equity on July 11
* MFs net sell Rs 332.20 crore (Rs 3.32 billion) on July 11
* NSE F&O Open Interest up by Rs 2,208 crore (Rs 22.08 billion) at Rs 79,574 crore (Rs 795.74 billion)

F&O cues:

* Futures Open Interest up by Rs 1,632 crore (Rs 16.32 billion); Options Open Interest up
by Rs 576 crore (Rs 5.76 billion)
* Nifty Futures add 8.4 lakh shares Open Interest
* Nifty Open Interest Put-Call ratio down to 1.54 from 1.55
* Nifty Calls add 3.8 lakh shares in Open Interest
* Nifty Puts add 4.2 lakh shares in Open Interest
* Nifty 4500 Call adds 4.1 lakh shares in Open Interest
* Nifty 4500 Put adds 3.2 lakh shares in Open Interest
* Nifty 4400 Put adds 2.1 lakh shares in Open Interest
* Nifty 4450 Put adds 2 lakh shares in Open Interest
* Nifty 4100 Put sheds 3.1 lakh shares in Open Interest