Indian equities continue to trade higher on Friday led by sharp fall in brent crude. At 1.51 p.m., the Sensex was trading up 326.05 points or 1.15% at 28,764.96.  Meanwhile, the Nifty was trading higher by 110.45 points or 1.30% at 8,604.65.

The Banking index climbed the most with a gain of 2.85% followed by Realty (1.85%) and Auto (1.82%). SBI, Axis Bank, Tata Steel and Tata Motors were major gainers in the Sensex pack. On the other hand Bharti Airtel, SSTL, Bajaj Auto and ONGC were top losers in the benchmark index.

Overall market breadth was positive with 1,603 advances against 1,290 declines.

Shares of Just Dial witnessed a jump of 1.21% today after the Reserve Bank of India increased the investment limit for overseas investors.