Domestic markets opened higher in Wednesday's trade, amidst mixed global cues. All sectors started trade in positive territory, with Nifty IT, Nifty Realty, and Nifty Consumer Durables indices gaining up to 0.4 per cent.
Among individual stocks, shares of Torrent Power soared over 7 per cent after the company signed an MoU with the Government of Maharashtra to develop three pumped storage hydro projects of 5,700 MW capacity.
At 9:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 62,908.91 up by 116.03 points or by 0.18 % and then NSE Nifty was at 18655.4 up by 56.4 points or by 0.3 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 62867.95 and intraday low of 62554.21 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 18676.05 and intraday low of 18636
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 8103.85,+2.93%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 968.90,+1.90%), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1960.90,+1.88%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 555.65,+1.68%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 9731.85,+1.57%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1085.90,-2.11%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1279.10,-1.98%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 3234.15,-1.69%), Wipro Ltd. (Rs. 399.90,-1.09%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1128.95,-0.82%), among others.
Realty index was at 3990.55 up by 49.36 points or by 1.25%. Macrotech Developers Ltd. (Rs. 573.80,+3.46%), Oberoi Realty Ltd. (Rs. 985.05,+2.67%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 495.15,+1.24%), Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. (Rs. 454.35,+1.16%), Phoenix Mills Ltd. (Rs. 1530.80,+1.10%),.
IT index was at 28863.99 down by -485.96 points or by -1.66%. Persistent Systems Ltd. (Rs. 4980.00,-4.49%), Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 4414.80,-3.90%), Cyient Ltd. (Rs. 1339.75,-3.77%), MphasiS Ltd. (Rs. 1914.70,-3.75%), Zensar Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 392.00,-2.74%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4097 , shares advanced were 2158 while 1738 shares declined and 201 were unchanged.