Indian markets continued to gain in early trade for the fourth day on Tuesday.The Nifty was trading at a new life time high. At 9.20 a.m., the Sensex was trading down 50.33 points or 0.17% at 29,408.81 with 18 components falling.  Meanwhile, the Nifty was trading higher by 1.55 points or 0.02% at 8,958.30 with 17 components gaining. 

Biggest gainers in the 30-share index were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries  (1.96%), Tata Consultancy Services  (1.19%), Housing Development Finance Corporation  (1.11%), Cipla  (0.95%), Wipro  (0.66%),  and Bajaj Auto  (0.65%).

 On the other hand, Coal India  (5.26%), Mahindra & Mahindra  (2.57%), Axis Bank  (1.42%), Tata Motors  (1.40%), I C I C I Bank  (1.02%),  and I T C  (0.96%) were the major losers in the Sensex.

The BSE Mid and small caps outperformed their larger counterparts gaining 0.27% and 0.17% respectively. 

The HC index was at 16,243.07, up by 92.36 points or by 0.57%. The Oil & Gas index was at 9,745.28, up by 38.79 points or by 0.40%. The Realty index was at 1,823.32, up by 6.78 points or by 0.37%. On the other hand, the Metal index was at 10,414.53, down by 148.49 points or by 1.41%.