Indian benchmark equity indices BSE Sensex and Nifty50 have pared their opening gains and were trading mildly higher on Tuesday amid rangebound markets.
At 12:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 78043.75 up by 59.37 points or by 0.08 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23680.9 up by 22.55 points or by 0.1 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 78741.69 and intraday low of 77912.18 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23869.6 and intraday low of 23627.55
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 11455.00,+3.66%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1629.25,+2.33%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1639.30,+2.19%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (Rs. 1935.40,+2.14%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1837.15,+2.00%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 636.90,-4.82%), Zomato Ltd. (Rs. 213.45,-4.15%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1331.60,-1.96%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1185.00,-1.30%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 156.50,-1.17%), among others.
IT index was at 37109.05 up by 496.36 points or by 1.36%. Sasken Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1564.15,+5.05%), Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 8060.50,+3.71%), Magellanic Cloud Ltd. (Rs. 56.72,+3.62%), Cigniti Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1461.95,+3.38%), Zensar Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 715.10,+2.51%),.
CDS index was at 54610.1 down by -924.75 points or by -1.67%. Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd. (Rs. 13828.25,-5.38%), Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd. (Rs. 470.90,-3.82%), Whirlpool of India Ltd. (Rs. 980.45,-2.30%), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. (Rs. 357.55,-1.28%), Blue Star Ltd. (Rs. 2181.35,-1.27%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4218 , shares advanced were 1153 while 2904 shares declined and 161 were unchanged.