Sensex creates history, crosses 50,000-mark; Nifty tops 14,700

Asian stocks rose to new record highs on Thursday. MSCI`s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan touched record highs and was last up 0.85%. Chinese blue-chips added 1.2%, Australian shares climbed 0.69% and Hong Kong`s Hang Seng breached the 30,000 level, rising 0.31%. Japan`s Nikkei was up 0.72%, less than 1% off three-decade highs reached last week. The rises in Asia followed fresh record highs on Wall Street overnight.