Markets maintain firm trend in afternoon session December 28, 2020 Sensex rallies over 300 points to 47,287, Nifty up 101 points at 13,851 The benchmark indices, the BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty, maintained their firm run in the afternoon session on Monday. At 1.30 pm, Sensex was up 314 points or 0.67 per cent at 47,287. Nifty was trading at 13,851, up 101 points or 0.74 per cent. There was no let-up in the market momentum in the last week of 2020, as benchmarks continued to climb on the back of buying by foreign institutional investors. While the Nifty-50 crossed the 13,800-mark quite comfortably, the BSE-500 crossed the 18,000-mark in early trade on Monday.