Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Thursday, weighed down by selling in IT stocks and cautious investor sentiment ahead of the outcome of the US-India trade talks.
The 30-share benchmark index ended at 82259.24 down by -375.24 points or by -0.45 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25111.45 down by -100.6 points or by -0.4 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 82757.09 and intraday low of 82219.27 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25238.35 and intraday low of 25101
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 159.85,+1.62%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 3431.45,+0.45%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 681.75,+0.41%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 12491.10,+0.30%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 923.90,+0.24%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1563.50,-2.76%), IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 864.80,-1.62%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1582.70,-1.61%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1544.10,-1.20%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 259.75,-0.97%), among others.
Realty index was at 7775.46 up by 93.84 points or by 1.22%. Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. (Rs. 1785.85,+3.89%), Sobha Ltd. (Rs. 1690.00,+2.40%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 2340.00,+2.21%), Brigade Enterprises Ltd. (Rs. 1132.65,+1.62%), Oberoi Realty Ltd. (Rs. 1841.90,+1.44%),.
IT index was at 36589.04 down by -492.07 points or by -1.33%. Magellanic Cloud Ltd. (Rs. 88.12,-9.38%), Newgen Software Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1026.50,-6.14%), 63 Moons Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1058.95,-3.28%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1563.50,-2.76%), LTIMindtree Ltd. (Rs. 5190.95,-2.55%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4394 , shares advanced were 2085 while 2130 shares declined and 179 were unchanged.