Indian benchmark indices, continued to trade higher in noon deals on Wednesday, led by a rally in IT and PSU Bank stocks.
At 14:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 85220.56 up by 547.54 points or by 0.65 % and then NSE Nifty was at 26042.3 up by 132.25 points or by 0.51 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 85227.75 and intraday low of 84525.98 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 26051.3 and intraday low of 25856.2
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1667.00,+4.53%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1541.50,+3.76%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 3149.05,+2.05%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1789.70,+1.70%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 2444.25,+1.69%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. (Rs. 361.75,-2.56%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 15747.30,-1.14%), IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 841.75,-0.74%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1484.20,-0.72%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1006.60,-0.69%), among others.
IT index was at 36143.61 up by 1057.27 points or by 3.01%. L&T Technology Services Ltd. (Rs. 4397.40,+7.97%), Intellect Design Arena Ltd. (Rs. 1153.45,+6.11%), Latent View Analytics Ltd. (Rs. 497.50,+5.81%), Magellanic Cloud Ltd. (Rs. 67.29,+4.75%), R Systems International Ltd. (Rs. 427.10,+4.72%),.
CGS index was at 70327.64 down by -202.44 points or by -0.29%. Carborundum Universal Ltd. (Rs. 836.10,-2.56%), Grindwell Norton Ltd. (Rs. 1532.45,-2.41%), Finolex Cables Ltd. (Rs. 771.45,-1.68%), NBCC (India) Ltd. (Rs. 113.25,-1.48%), CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 723.00,-1.42%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4469 , shares advanced were 1866 while 2403 shares declined and 200 were unchanged.