Indian benchmark indices continued to trade in green during the morning deals buoyed by buying in consumer goods and oil & gas stocks.
At 10:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 62917.04 up by 70.66 points or by 0.11 % and then NSE Nifty was at 18650.35 up by 51.7 points or by 0.28 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 63030.63 and intraday low of 62737.4 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 18662.45 and intraday low of 18575.5
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 7926.40,+1.11%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1136.95,+0.95%), NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 177.45,+0.80%), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1967.90,+0.77%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 2828.90,+0.67%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 961.95,-0.64%), Nestle India Ltd. (Rs. 21589.15,-0.61%), Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 2680.25,-0.39%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 3309.80,-0.29%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 447.80,-0.29%), among others.
CGS index was at 37173.42 up by 122.34 points or by 0.33%. AIA Engineering Ltd. (Rs. 2880.25,+3.20%), Thermax Ltd. (Rs. 2319.10,+2.82%), Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (Rs. 3070.40,+1.88%), GMR Airports Infrastructure Ltd. (Rs. 41.17,+1.70%), V-Guard Industries Ltd. (Rs. 252.75,+1.44%),.
Metal index was at 19983.07 down by -53.15 points or by -0.27%. Vedanta Ltd. (Rs. 286.70,-4.54%), APL Apollo Tubes Ltd. (Rs. 1121.55,-1.27%), National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Rs. 85.31,-0.87%), Hindalco Industries Ltd. (Rs. 418.05,-0.44%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 108.20,-0.18%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 3401 , shares advanced were 1820 while 1413 shares declined and 168 were unchanged.