Indian benchmark indices continued to trade in positive territory during Tuesday’s afternoon session.
At 12:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 72912.52 up by 530.05 points or by 0.73 % and then NSE Nifty was at 22687.45 up by 131.7 points or by 0.58 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 72929.41 and intraday low of 72384.83 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 22700.7 and intraday low of 22561.6
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Trent Ltd. (Rs. 2863.75,+11.21%), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Rs. 432.55,+3.90%), Reliance Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1217.40,+2.64%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1249.20,+2.06%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 1868.00,+1.52%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1499.40,-2.54%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 4539.00,-1.33%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1007.25,-1.20%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 265.40,-1.17%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 960.25,-1.11%), among others.
CGS index was at 75584.47 up by 1167.74 points or by 1.57%. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (Rs. 450.40,+5.33%), Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd. (Rs. 1058.05,+3.53%), ABB India Ltd. (Rs. 7122.00,+3.49%), CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 908.90,+3.16%), Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (Rs. 4806.60,+2.92%),.
IT index was at 26900.16 down by -233.79 points or by -0.86%. Mindteck (India) Ltd. (Rs. 143.75,-5.43%), Cyient Ltd. (Rs. 1106.50,-2.93%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1499.40,-2.54%), GNG Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 684.55,-1.70%), Innovana Thinklabs Ltd. (Rs. 297.05,-1.69%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4550 , shares advanced were 2686 while 1608 shares declined and 256 were unchanged.