Indian benchmark indices remained under pressure on Wednesday afternoon amid selling in index heavyweights including Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, %), ICICI Bank Ltd, Axis Bank Ltd, Bajaj Finance Ltd.
At 12:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 76902.81 down by -332.65 points or by -0.43 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24060.2 down by -94.7 points or by -0.39 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 77347.81 and intraday low of 76823.91 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24172.85 and intraday low of 24027.9
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 322.65,+2.10%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1315.75,+1.21%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1891.00,+0.78%), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Rs. 390.25,+0.76%), Trent Ltd. (Rs. 2961.10,+0.62%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Rs. 263.60,-1.57%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1394.40,-1.18%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1226.50,-1.17%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1080.45,-1.14%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (Rs. 4039.30,-1.05%), among others.
IT index was at 29181.34 up by 75.61 points or by 0.26%. Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services Ltd. (Rs. 182.90,+10.28%), D-Link (India) Ltd. (Rs. 443.35,+5.85%), Cyient Ltd. (Rs. 895.40,+4.39%), 63 Moons Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 786.85,+3.98%), Magellanic Cloud Ltd. (Rs. 29.83,+3.47%),.
CGS index was at 79270.38 down by -1098.46 points or by -1.37%. Hitachi Energy India Ltd. (Rs. 33675.00,-4.39%), Apar Industries Ltd. (Rs. 16666.00,-3.14%), Siemens Energy India Ltd. (Rs. 3484.20,-2.92%), Carborundum Universal Ltd. (Rs. 1095.20,-2.76%), CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 872.50,-2.40%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4435 , shares advanced were 1743 while 2447 shares declined and 245 were unchanged.