Domestic bourses continued to trade lower during the noon trading session weighed down by selling in index heavyweights including UltraTech Cement Ltd, NTPC Ltd.,Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.Tata Motors Ltd. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.among others.
At 12:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 81658.05 down by -518.4 points or by -0.63 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24934.65 down by -66.5 points or by -0.27 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 82410.52 and intraday low of 81261.96 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25062.9 and intraday low of 24737.7
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 822.75,+2.81%), State Bank of India (Rs. 798.50,+0.52%), Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2339.10,+0.50%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1404.55,+0.35%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1677.85,+0.13%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 11430.80,-2.21%), NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 338.10,-1.54%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3043.60,-1.20%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 720.75,-1.14%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 3500.15,-1.07%), among others.
Realty index was at 7348.14 up by 38.03 points or by 0.52%. Macrotech Developers Ltd. (Rs. 1466.00,+1.85%), Signatureglobal (India) Ltd. (Rs. 1202.85,+1.30%), Phoenix Mills Ltd. (Rs. 1606.90,+0.61%), Oberoi Realty Ltd. (Rs. 1750.00,+0.48%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 2257.00,+0.45%),.
In BSE, BSE_CGS index was at 70064.47 up by 189.62 points or by 0.27%. Hitachi Energy India Ltd. (Rs. 16951.00,+3.77%), Elgi Equipments Ltd. (Rs. 496.05,+3.61%), Bharat Dynamics Ltd. (Rs. 1965.80,+2.99%), Honeywell Automation India Ltd. (Rs. 38090.90,+2.41%), Titagarh Rail Systems Ltd. (Rs. 925.90,+1.83%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4094 , shares advanced were 2007 while 1904 shares declined and 183 were unchanged.