Domestic bourses continued to hover in red during the noon trading session amid selling seen in the bank, FMCG, IT, pharma, FMCG, realty sectors.
At 14:35 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 60171.86 down by -583 points or by -0.96 % and then NSE Nifty was at 17917.8 down by -195.25 points or by -1.08 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 60870.17 and intraday low of 59949.22 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 18129.2 and intraday low of 17884.9.
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 1209.80,+1.28%), State Bank of India (Rs. 513.00,+1.25%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 7989.00,+0.93%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 731.10,+0.76%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1665.35,+0.28%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 3281.20,-2.70%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1873.80,-2.45%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 2312.05,-2.41%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 7421.20,-1.92%), Wipro Ltd. (Rs. 621.45,-1.89%), among others.
PSU index was at 8817.85 up by 78.85 points or by 0.9%. NLC India Ltd. (Rs. 71.00,+3.80%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 169.35,+3.39%), GAIL (India) Ltd. (Rs. 147.65,+3.36%), Bank of Baroda (Rs. 95.10,+3.15%), MMTC Ltd. (Rs. 48.30,+3.09%),.
_IT index was at 37206.36 down by -670.28 points or by -1.77%. L&T Technology Services Ltd. (Rs. 5134.45,-5.29%), 63 Moons Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 338.30,-5.00%), Aptech Ltd. (Rs. 403.05,-5.00%), HCL Infosystems Ltd. (Rs. 27.90,-4.94%), Affle (India) Ltd. (Rs. 1385.00,-4.43%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 3691 , shares advanced were 1534 while 2039 shares declined and 118 were unchanged.