Snapping a nine-day losing streak, the Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange jumped 308 points, or 1.7 percent, to close at 18,519, today, as investors bought beaten-down stocks, amid falling crude oil and other commodity prices. The Nifty at the National Stock Exchange rose 92 points, or 1.7 percent, to 5,551.

But stock markets in Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore lost between 0.3 percent and 1.5 percent