The Sensex at the Bombay stock Exchange rose 152 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 16,182, in early trade, today, on fresh buying by funds and retail investors, amid firm Asian bourses. Later, the Sensex trimmed its gains, and stood 77 points, or 0.5 percent in the green, at 16,107 in afternoon deals a short while ago. Other Asian markets in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea were up by between 0.3 percent and 1.5 percent, today, as faster-than-expected economic growth in Japan, and hopes that the US central bank will do more to stimulate the US economy offset concerns about Greece. But the US Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost 0.3 per cent in yesterday's trade.