Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded on Thursday after a sharp fall in the previous session amid foreign fund inflows and buying in blue-chip stocks.
At 10:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 77026.27 up by 522.67 points or by 0.68 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24042.85 up by 160.8 points or by 0.67 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 77139.07 and intraday low of 76576.14 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24076.8 and intraday low of 23927.7
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1952.20,+3.30%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1945.55,+3.05%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 293.95,+2.58%), Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2705.00,+1.44%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 11505.00,+1.29%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1052.25,-1.60%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 997.00,-1.31%), NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 344.70,-1.16%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 2040.25,-0.89%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 187.20,-0.48%), among others.
HCS index was at 50101.05 up by 894.44 points or by 1.82%. Unichem Laboratories Ltd. (Rs. 642.35,+12.37%), Fermenta Biotech Ltd. (Rs. 399.75,+9.37%), Suven Life Sciences Ltd. (Rs. 337.55,+6.37%), Bajaj Healthcare Ltd. (Rs. 354.75,+6.31%), Vimta Labs Ltd. (Rs. 569.50,+5.95%),.
IT index was at 26662.32 down by -80.14 points or by -0.3%. Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1052.85,-1.54%), Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. (Rs. 10900.00,-1.00%), Capillary Technologies India Ltd. (Rs. 506.75,-0.93%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 2041.00,-0.85%), Zensar Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 447.95,-0.67%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4014 , shares advanced were 2862 while 932 shares declined and 220 were unchanged.