Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded on Friday driven by buying in blue-chip IT stocks and a firm trend in Asian equity markets.
At 10:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 81416.63 up by 464.64 points or by 0.57 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24793.1 up by 183.4 points or by 0.75 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 81625.65 and intraday low of 80897 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24826.65 and intraday low of 24614.05
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 235.00,+2.53%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 434.95,+2.08%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1576.65,+1.77%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1592.05,+1.61%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1659.65,+1.57%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1669.15,-2.96%), IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 781.50,-0.46%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 715.90,-0.26%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1440.65,-0.09%), NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 341.25,-0.09%), among others.
IT index was at 37134.12 up by 518.78 points or by 1.42%. Expleo Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 1092.05,+16.37%), Zensar Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 868.85,+5.80%), Magellanic Cloud Ltd. (Rs. 77.39,+3.87%), Cigniti Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1563.25,+2.34%), Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. (Rs. 8466.00,+2.08%),.
HCS index was at 42393.81 down by -122.85 points or by -0.29%. Windlas Biotech Ltd. (Rs. 884.10,-8.89%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1669.15,-2.96%), Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd. (Rs. 2222.15,-2.74%), Themis Medicare Ltd. (Rs. 137.40,-2.62%), Syncom Formulation (India) Ltd. (Rs. 19.24,-2.34%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 3774 , shares advanced were 2004 while 1550 shares declined and 220 were unchanged.