Mumbai, Aug 13 : The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark recovered sharply, gaining over 308 points in early trade on Thursday.

The recovery was due to the emergence of buying at lower levels triggered by an attractive industrial data and firming global trend.

The Sensex which had lost 54.43 points in Wednesday's trading, surged by 308.08 points at 15,328.24 points in first ten minutes of trading.

Experts feel that a better-than-expected industrial data released on Wednesday, mainly influenced the trading sentiment.

A better trend in Asia and US stock markets further boosted the trend.

Similarly, the National Stock Exchange index Nifty shot up 91.65 points at 4549.15 points at the same time. (ANI)