The Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex were trading higher, supported by a rally in global equity markets.
At 12:50 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 79542.52 up by 426.33 points or by 0.54 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24652.7 up by 172.2 points or by 0.7 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 79680.66 and intraday low of 79217.14 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24672.8 and intraday low of 24530.05
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bharat Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 467.00,+4.54%), NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 378.10,+3.35%), Reliance Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1384.00,+2.86%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (Rs. 3992.75,+2.85%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1788.90,+2.26%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 236.05,-1.93%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1342.60,-1.57%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1331.15,-1.44%), State Bank of India (Rs. 1159.75,-1.26%), Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2261.75,-1.05%), among others.
Metal index was at 39704.23 up by 843.38 points or by 2.17%. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (Rs. 973.00,+5.52%), National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Rs. 393.40,+5.30%), Coal India Ltd. (Rs. 457.05,+5.06%), Vedanta Ltd. (Rs. 722.85,+3.16%), NMDC Ltd. (Rs. 78.05,+1.63%),.
IT index was at 29102.5 down by -290.94 points or by -0.99%. InfoBeans Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 163.15,-6.88%), Netweb Technologies India Ltd. (Rs. 3304.30,-4.47%), eMudhra Ltd. (Rs. 411.20,-4.07%), Latent View Analytics Ltd. (Rs. 303.35,-3.85%), Genesys International Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 261.95,-3.36%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4332 , shares advanced were 2465 while 1681 shares declined and 186 were unchanged.