Indian benchmark indices continued to hover in red during the noon trading weighed down by selling in Tata Steel Ltd, Tata Motors Ltd. Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Reliance Industries Ltd. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd among others.
At 12:52 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 75523.93 down by -771.43 points or by -1.01 % and then NSE Nifty was at 22962.25 down by -287.85 points or by -1.24 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 76258.12 and intraday low of 75435.75 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23214.7 and intraday low of 22921.6
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 8762.75,+1.91%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1825.20,+1.76%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1095.65,+0.54%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1754.90,+0.53%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1333.50,+0.34%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 144.20,-6.15%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 616.00,-5.82%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (Rs. 3257.20,-4.72%), Reliance Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1197.00,-4.13%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1705.10,-3.67%), among others.
_Bankex index was at 59352.33 up by 149.93 points or by 0.25%. HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1823.00,+1.63%), Federal Bank Ltd. (Rs. 196.25,+1.06%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1095.45,+0.52%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1334.50,+0.41%),.
Metal index was at 28855.32 down by -1520.23 points or by -5%. Vedanta Ltd. (Rs. 406.95,-7.42%), National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Rs. 160.60,-6.98%), Hindalco Industries Ltd. (Rs. 608.85,-6.73%), Hindustan Zinc Ltd. (Rs. 429.90,-6.42%), NMDC Ltd. (Rs. 66.04,-6.33%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4110 , shares advanced were 1060 while 2875 shares declined and 175 were unchanged.