Domestic bourses continued to gain strength during the noon trading session amid buying in index heavyweights including Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, Reliance Industries Ltd., ICICI Bank Ltd. Bharti Airtel Ltd and HCL Technologies Ltd. among others.
At 14:15 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 74243.88 up by 1461.99 points or by 2.01 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23048.55 up by 425.85 points or by 1.88 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 74330.29 and intraday low of 72896.38 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23056.4 and intraday low of 22637.4
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1633.50,+3.65%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1386.30,+3.52%), Reliance Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1216.40,+3.44%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1858.35,+3.30%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1368.80,+2.99%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Trent Ltd. (Rs. 2940.00,-0.86%), Bharat Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 380.95,-0.30%), among others.
TECk index was at 15390.45 up by 349.93 points or by 2.33%. Tata Communications Ltd. (Rs. 1785.65,+7.63%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1633.50,+3.65%), Bharti Hexacom Ltd. (Rs. 1629.25,+3.46%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1858.35,+3.30%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1368.80,+2.99%),.
CGS index was at 73607.06 down by -1608.72 points or by -2.14%. Siemens Energy India Ltd. (Rs. 2975.90,-5.39%), Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (Rs. 439.00,-5.29%), Apar Industries Ltd. (Rs. 16986.00,-5.26%), CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 818.05,-5.20%), GE Vernova T&D India Ltd. (Rs. 3977.00,-5.08%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4641 , shares advanced were 1830 while 2568 shares declined and 243 were unchanged.