Domestic bourses continued to trade higher during the noon trading session supported by Oil&Gas and Realty stocks.
At 14:45 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 74366.13 up by 1228.23 points or by 1.68 % and then NSE Nifty was at 22553.25 up by 391.65 points or by 1.77 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 74859.39 and intraday low of 73424.92 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 22697.2 and intraday low of 22270.85
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 3131.95,+3.58%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 8844.00,+3.23%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (Rs. 3164.80,+3.06%), Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2406.45,+2.89%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1078.60,+2.83%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were among others.
Oil&Gas index was at 24168.51 up by 618.92 points or by 2.63%. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 369.00,+4.43%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 286.50,+4.41%), Petronet LNG Ltd. (Rs. 285.30,+3.37%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 226.60,+3.05%), Oil India Ltd. (Rs. 353.40,+2.88%),.
Power index was at 6392.67 down by 61.15 points or by 0.97%. Siemens Ltd. (Rs. 2790.95,-0.84%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4240 , shares advanced were 3191 while 894 shares declined and 155 were unchanged.