Sensex and Nifty extended their gains in afternoon trade on Friday, supported by broad-based buying across banking, realty and oil & gas stocks.
At 14:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 77581.01 up by 839.19 points or by 1.09 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24202.05 up by 239.25 points or by 1 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 77604.15 and intraday low of 77320.56 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24226.05 and intraday low of 24120.35
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bharat Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 415.05,+2.22%), Reliance Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1307.00,+2.13%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1453.00,+2.02%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1068.80,+1.79%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1406.10,+1.77%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 289.00,-1.11%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1920.10,-0.54%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1929.25,-0.50%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 281.50,-0.16%), among others.
Realty index was at 7310.46 up by 225.99 points or by 3.19%. Brigade Enterprises Ltd. (Rs. 566.55,+6.28%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 2123.40,+4.58%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 685.20,+3.83%), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. (Rs. 1729.55,+3.23%), Anant Raj Ltd. (Rs. 587.50,+3.19%),.
FMCG index was at 18408.51 down by 17.04 points or by 0.09%.
VST Industries Ltd. (Rs. 248.30,-6.25%), Foods & Inns Ltd. (Rs. 60.18,-3.87%), Sundrop Brands Ltd. (Rs. 626.00,-3.37%), Allied Blenders & Distillers Ltd. (Rs. 649.65,-2.56%), Gujarat Ambuja Exports Ltd. (Rs. 155.30,-2.23%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4584 , shares advanced were 2901 while 1452 shares declined and 231 were unchanged.