The Sensex and Nifty recovered on Wednesday after two consecutive sessions of declines, supported by easing crude oil prices and buying interest in heavyweight IT stocks.
At 10:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 72841.35 up by 312.28 points or by 0.43 % and then NSE Nifty was at 22757.95 up by 41.75 points or by 0.18 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 72899.64 and intraday low of 72440.05 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 22761.65 and intraday low of 22659.8
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 2092.25,+2.76%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1553.65,+2.19%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1250.05,+2.04%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1318.80,+2.03%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1019.70,+1.41%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1785.90,-1.77%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1834.00,-1.40%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 322.45,-1.39%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1757.95,-1.02%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 713.50,-0.90%), among others.
_IT index was at 27253.39 up by 584.92 points or by 2.19%. TVS Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 402.00,+7.29%), Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 1808.00,+5.06%), Cyient Ltd. (Rs. 1103.55,+4.77%), Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. (Rs. 10840.65,+4.24%), Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. (Rs. 715.00,+3.96%),.
HCS index was at 50393.14 down by -859.74 points or by -1.68%. Innova Captab Ltd. (Rs. 1196.55,-5.98%), Yatharth Hospital & Trauma Care Services Ltd. (Rs. 1046.15,-5.38%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. (Rs. 8237.95,-5.33%), Anlon Healthcare Ltd. (Rs. 34.68,-4.99%), TAKE Ltd. (Rs. 13.27,-4.94%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4125 , shares advanced were 2451 while 1448 shares declined and 226 were unchanged.