Domestic bourses continued to trade higher during the noon trading session supported by strong buying in FMCG, realty and banking stocks.
At 14:45 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 76962.87 up by 484.2 points or by 0.63 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23999.45 up by 133.7 points or by 0.56 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 77110.08 and intraday low of 76538.37 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24049.9 and intraday low of 23895.1
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 278.45,+5.21%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 2180.60,+2.91%), Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2708.55,+2.69%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1854.00,+2.42%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3135.30,+2.12%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1360.30,-3.20%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1038.45,-3.13%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 1987.35,-2.30%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 185.55,-1.38%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 989.00,-1.16%), among others.
Realty index was at 6677.51 up by 203.73 points or by 3.15%. Aditya Birla Real Estate Ltd. (Rs. 1395.75,+5.55%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1944.60,+4.18%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 645.10,+4.00%), Lodha Developers Ltd. (Rs. 989.00,+3.58%), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. (Rs. 1617.00,+3.42%),.
IT index was at 25294.96 down by -423.12 points or by -1.65%. KPIT Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 560.30,-16.55%), Tata Elxsi Ltd. (Rs. 3600.00,-6.01%), Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 1387.10,-5.44%), R Systems International Ltd. (Rs. 222.95,-5.11%), Dynacons Systems & Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 1305.00,-4.65%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4636 , shares advanced were 2374 while 2036 shares declined and 226 were unchanged.