The Nifty 50 and Sensex pared their early gains as selling pressure in IT, FMCG, and banking stocks weighed on the benchmark indices.
At 9:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 72389.78 down by -82.55 points or by -0.11 % and then NSE Nifty was at 22529.9 up by 9.45 points or by 0.04 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 72884.25 and intraday low of 72357.05 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 22651.1 and intraday low of 22512
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Trent Ltd. (Rs. 2964.60,+1.53%), Bharat Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 373.80,+1.44%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 175.75,+1.24%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 2821.45,+1.05%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 964.35,+0.65%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1463.40,-3.54%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1769.80,-2.04%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 262.85,-1.26%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1247.00,-0.95%), State Bank of India (Rs. 949.00,-0.95%), among others.
CGS index was at 74252.38 up by 960.68 points or by 1.31%. Suzlon Energy Ltd. (Rs. 38.95,+3.65%), KEI Industries Ltd. (Rs. 4695.00,+2.44%), Siemens Ltd. (Rs. 3683.90,+2.33%), Polycab India Ltd. (Rs. 8426.15,+2.14%), CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 873.50,+1.97%),.
TECk index was at 14410.91 down by -135.49 points or by -0.93%. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1463.40,-3.54%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1769.80,-2.04%), Vodafone Idea Ltd. (Rs. 12.78,-1.46%), Indus Towers Ltd. (Rs. 373.95,-1.27%), Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 1853.25,-0.79%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 3812 , shares advanced were 2448 while 1134 shares declined and 230 were unchanged.