Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty traded firmly higher in afternoon trade on Thursday, supported by broad-based buying across sectors after witnessing a sharp decline in the previous session.
At 14:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 77042.75 up by 539.15 points or by 0.7 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24051.3 up by 169.25 points or by 0.71 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 77326.65 and intraday low of 76576.14 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24134.7 and intraday low of 23927.7
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1941.60,+2.84%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (Rs. 1905.85,+2.76%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1930.50,+2.15%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 292.60,+2.11%), InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (Rs. 5227.95,+2.00%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 13780.50,-1.17%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1057.65,-1.09%), NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 345.70,-0.87%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1302.45,-0.68%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 2055.20,-0.16%), among others.
Realty index was at 7063.76 up by 232.19 points or by 3.4%. Brigade Enterprises Ltd. (Rs. 530.60,+6.41%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 664.10,+4.79%), Aditya Birla Real Estate Ltd. (Rs. 1404.50,+3.91%), Lodha Developers Ltd. (Rs. 1156.50,+3.80%), Phoenix Mills Ltd. (Rs. 2097.40,+3.72%),.
IT index was at 26810.36 down by 67.9 points or by 0.25%. Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1057.65,-1.09%), Sasken Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1959.70,-0.98%), KPIT Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 548.90,-0.97%), GNG Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 637.25,-0.70%), Capillary Technologies India Ltd. (Rs. 508.10,-0.66%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4569 , shares advanced were 3065 while 1262 shares declined and 242 were unchanged.