Domestic bourses were trading flat during the noon trading session amid selling in metal and Bank stocks.
Meanwhile, Indian rupee is trading lower at 74.37 per dollar, amid buying seen in the domestic equity market. It opened marginally lower at 74.32 per dollar against previous close of 74.28.
At 14:45 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 52651.92 down by -1.15 points or by 0 % and then NSE Nifty was at 15829.65 up by 51.2 points or by 0.32 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 52910.23 and intraday low of 52555.39 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 15862.8 and intraday low of 15744.85
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 771.95,+9.77%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1211.00,+7.38%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1033.10,+2.53%), Bajaj Auto Ltd. (Rs. 3834.30,+1.90%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 744.55,+1.76%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 6243.50,-2.36%), State Bank of India (Rs. 431.65,-2.29%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (Rs. 14273.00,-2.18%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 1436.00,-1.58%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 1716.40,-1.36%), among others.
Among the sectors, HCS index was at 26178.61 up by 597.82 points or by 2.34%. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 773.00,+9.92%), Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd. (Rs. 266.35,+8.51%), Max Healthcare Institute Ltd. (Rs. 293.55,+6.24%), Laurus Labs Ltd. (Rs. 633.85,+4.83%), Cipla Ltd. (Rs. 924.75,+4.81%),.
Metal index was at 21100.51 down by -123.21 points or by -0.58%. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (Rs. 446.80,-2.50%), APL Apollo Tubes Ltd. (Rs. 1754.20,-2.03%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 1441.30,-1.21%), NMDC Ltd. (Rs. 180.95,-0.98%), Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (Rs. 434.90,-0.64%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 3561 , shares advanced were 1963 while 1438 shares declined and 160 were unchanged.