Pre-market: Markets to open higher; Moody’s upgrades India’s outlook 09/04/2015

The BSE’s 30-share bellwether index- Sensex is likely to open with a positive note on Thursday after Moody’s upgrades the country’s outlook to positive versus stable amid expectations that new policies will boost India’s economic growth. 

In the overnight trading, US stocks ended higher, following which Asian markets were trading in green, led by Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, which was trading up by 520 points at 26,757. Japan’s Nikkei 225 was also trading in green, up by 127 points at 19,917 and Taiwan Index was at 9,618, up by 46 points in the early trading session. China’s Shanghai Composite was, however, trading in red at 3,949, down by 45 points.