Indian equity markets recovered early losses and turned positive during the late noon trading session, driven by stock-specific action as investors assessed Q2FY26 earnings reports and various corporate developments across sectors.
At 14:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 83862.62 up by 327.27 points or by 0.39 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25679.5 up by 105.15 points or by 0.41 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 83877.27 and intraday low of 83124.03 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25681.6 and intraday low of 25449.25
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 820.80,+2.72%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 307.25,+1.94%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1470.20,+1.83%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1568.70,+1.81%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3726.00,+1.71%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1004.50,-7.45%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (Rs. 1988.00,-6.25%), Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. (Rs. 406.95,-0.89%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Rs. 267.05,-0.47%), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Rs. 2092.00,-0.08%), among others.
TECk index was at 17778.65 up by 187.1 points or by 1.06%. HFCL Ltd. (Rs. 76.85,+3.54%), Persistent Systems Ltd. (Rs. 5991.70,+2.14%), Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 1792.35,+1.97%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1565.60,+1.61%), Tata Elxsi Ltd. (Rs. 5283.25,+1.42%),.
HCS index was at 44243.92 down by -133.3 points or by -0.3%. Aarti Drugs Ltd. (Rs. 472.40,-9.07%), Neuland Laboratories Ltd. (Rs. 17260.00,-4.69%), Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Ltd. (Rs. 673.15,-4.35%), Innova Captab Ltd. (Rs. 710.60,-4.02%), Yatharth Hospital & Trauma Care Services Ltd. (Rs. 770.00,-3.46%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4458 , shares advanced were 1936 while 2313 shares declined and 209 were unchanged.