The benchmark Sensex and Nifty surged around 2.5% on Thursday as falling crude oil prices and optimism over an early resolution to the West Asia conflict boosted investor sentiment.
At 14:45 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 79441.22 up by 2139.82 points or by 2.77 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24552.3 up by 591.7 points or by 2.47 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 79470.03 and intraday low of 78520.56 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24579.9 and intraday low of 24296.3.
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1070.50,+7.80%), InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (Rs. 5446.50,+5.96%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3125.40,+5.87%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 12651.00,+5.70%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1498.00,+5.20%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 316.95,-1.48%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 278.55,-0.41%), Bharat Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 395.75,-0.34%), among others.
Auto index was at 60670.49 up by 2514.85 points or by 4.32%. UNO Minda Ltd. (Rs. 1326.65,+10.84%), Ashok Leyland Ltd. (Rs. 170.60,+10.78%), Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (Rs. 2403.00,+7.09%), MRF Ltd. (Rs. 125715.10,+6.57%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 429.00,+6.50%),.
_CGS index was at 71636.65 down by -1294.52 points or by -1.77%. Cummins India Ltd. (Rs. 4153.40,-12.55%), Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. (Rs. 1595.00,-11.60%), CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 811.00,-3.66%), GE Vernova T&D India Ltd. (Rs. 4123.50,-3.32%), Siemens Energy India Ltd. (Rs. 2867.20,-3.14%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4802 , shares advanced were 3176 while 1433 shares declined and 194 were unchanged.