The Indian equity markets witnessed a buoyant day on Monday, supported by buying in IT and banking stocks, reflecting positive investor sentiment.
At 12:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 81613.51 up by 406.34 points or by 0.5 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25005.65 up by 111.4 points or by 0.45 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 81637.53 and intraday low of 81155.88 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25016.55 and intraday low of 24881.65
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Rs. 2151.00,+2.38%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1012.45,+2.30%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 2964.50,+2.15%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 334.55,+1.86%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1203.45,+1.84%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 170.05,-1.82%), NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 336.00,-1.73%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Rs. 285.40,-1.45%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1399.30,-1.38%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 707.75,-1.15%), among others.
IT index was at 33969.7 up by 421.27 points or by 1.26%. Onward Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 329.50,+10.94%), Black Box Ltd. (Rs. 587.10,+5.00%), 63 Moons Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 889.75,+3.29%), LTIMindtree Ltd. (Rs. 5250.00,+2.56%), Latent View Analytics Ltd. (Rs. 425.35,+2.38%),.
Metal index was at 33664.73 down by -383.89 points or by -1.13%. Jindal Steel Ltd. (Rs. 1045.30,-2.87%), Jindal Stainless Ltd. (Rs. 766.55,-2.75%), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) Ltd. (Rs. 132.00,-2.19%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 170.05,-1.82%), National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Rs. 217.60,-1.61%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4431 , shares advanced were 1846 while 2354 shares declined and 231 were unchanged.