Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty halted their seven-day winning run and closed down by nearly 1 per cent on Wednesday due to profit-taking in banking and IT shares.
The 30-share benchmark index ended at 77288.5 down by -728.69 points or by -0.93 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23486.85 down by -181.8 points or by -0.77 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 78167.87 and intraday low of 77194.22 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23736.5 and intraday low of 23451.7
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 656.05,+2.94%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1633.30,+0.43%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 2742.90,+0.22%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Rs. 291.35,+0.07%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 3057.20,+0.07%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 354.15,-3.54%), Zomato Ltd. (Rs. 203.30,-3.10%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1415.60,-2.85%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 8864.95,-2.28%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1095.60,-2.14%), among others.
_CGS index was at 62499.96 up by 31.95 points or by 0.05%. Siemens Ltd. (Rs. 5417.00,+5.82%), Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (Rs. 4127.90,+2.91%), Honeywell Automation India Ltd. (Rs. 33660.00,+2.89%), ABB India Ltd. (Rs. 5522.65,+2.08%), Cummins India Ltd. (Rs. 2998.60,+1.38%),.
Oil&Gas index was at 24727.31 down by -382.5 points or by -1.52%. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 351.95,-2.60%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 273.10,-2.13%), GAIL (India) Ltd. (Rs. 174.15,-1.91%), Indraprastha Gas Ltd. (Rs. 195.65,-1.88%), Oil India Ltd. (Rs. 383.50,-1.67%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4376 , shares advanced were 1047 while 3189 shares declined and 140 were unchanged.