mumbai equities were firm in the afternoon trade on wednesday in line with asian markets as sentiments turned bullish after warren buffets berkshire hathaway announced investment of 5 billion in goldman sachs positive opening of european markets lifted sentiments furtherat 105 pm bombay stock exchanges sensex was at 1378591 up 21560 points or 159 per cent it touched a high of 1384081 and low of 1362656national stock exchanges nifty was at 419390 up 162 per cent or 67 points the 50share index touched a high of 420795 and low of 411585bse midcap index was up 099 per cent and bse smallcap index was up 103 per centbse realty index and bse bankex were the major sectoral gainers up by 283 per cent and 233 per cent respectively bse it index was the only loser down by 072 per centsterlite industries 881 hdfc bank 373 dlf 312 jaiprakash associates 264 and reliance infrastructure 227 were the major sensex gainerswipro 328 infosys technologies 153 satyam computer services 140 and tata motors 096 were the only losersshares of sterlite technologies flared up after the company announced that it was not going ahead with its restructuring scheme as planned earliertata motors shares were subdued on reports that the company would pullout from singur where it planned to setup a plant for manufacturing 1 lakh car nanolarsen toubro bagged rs 5000 crore in the second quarter of 200809 for the construction of a slew of institutional commercial residential and factory buildings the scrip was up 156 per centsimplex infrastructures bagged rs 630 crore order for tower construction in dubai the stock was at rs 409 on the bsesun pharmaceutical shares were up 212 per cent after usfda granted approval for abbreviated new drug application to market generic paraplatin carboplatin injectionmarket breadth on the bse was positive with 1387 advances and 916 declineseuropean markets opened in the green ftse 100 was up 021 per cent cac 40 moved 049 per cent higher and dax advanced 049 per centwwweconomictimesindiatimescom