Sensex stays choppy, TCS surges over 4%

Indian stock markets remained in positive territory in the late trade with stocks of IT companies attracting strong buying support.

The Sensex was up 66 points at 20,595, off its day's high of 20,645 while Nifty rose 14 points to 6,110.

After Infosys came out with good numbers on Friday, investors increased their bets on TCS, which is due to announce its results tomorrow. TCS stocks rose 4.3 percent to Rs 2,214 while Wipro rose over 2 percent.

Stocks remain choppy after inflation data showed that the wholesale price index moved to eight-month high of 6.46 percent in September.