The Nifty50 and the Sensex were trading near day's high on Wednesday as oil prices declined following the US-Iran's ceasefire.
At 14:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 77515.06 up by 2898.48 points or by 3.88 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23965.3 up by 841.65 points or by 3.64 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 77624.69 and intraday low of 77042.15 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24025.15 and intraday low of 23828.5
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (Rs. 4594.40,+7.64%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (Rs. 4002.80,+7.52%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 11737.60,+7.39%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 13699.10,+7.03%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 914.00,+6.86%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1449.35,-1.63%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Rs. 294.55,-0.30%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1714.05,-0.26%), among others.
Realty index was at 5805.33 up by 377.36 points or by 6.95%. Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. (Rs. 1325.90,+8.45%), Lodha Developers Ltd. (Rs. 776.05,+8.04%), Phoenix Mills Ltd. (Rs. 1716.70,+7.64%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 574.35,+7.61%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1708.60,+6.42%),.
_IT index was at 30354.34 down by 196.31 points or by 0.65%. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1449.35,-1.63%), Wipro Ltd. (Rs. 203.20,-0.73%), Persistent Systems Ltd. (Rs. 5371.35,-0.27%), Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. (Rs. 7175.50,-0.22%), Kellton Tech Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 15.05,-0.13%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4660 , shares advanced were 3959 while 549 shares declined and 152 were unchanged.