Indian benchmark indices opened on a mixed note on Tuesday, with the Sensex and Nifty50 trading cautiously as investors remained on the sidelines ahead of the Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy meeting and ongoing US-Iran talks.
At 9:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 78750.61 up by 111.58 points or by 0.14 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24615.85 down by -158.45 points or by -0.64 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 79143.15 and intraday low of 78698.11 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24703.9 and intraday low of 24589.85
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2797.35,+1.54%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 191.90,+1.48%), Trent Ltd. (Rs. 3072.80,+1.25%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1154.00,+1.15%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (Rs. 2082.25,+0.84%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 2104.00,-0.75%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 4865.00,-0.71%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1164.25,-0.49%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1642.30,-0.47%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 748.15,-0.39%), among others.
_CGS index was at 78443.52 up by 1003.96 points or by 1.3%. KEI Industries Ltd. (Rs. 5340.00,+6.59%), Data Patterns (India) Ltd. (Rs. 4587.00,+3.53%), ABB India Ltd. (Rs. 7823.15,+3.48%), Apar Industries Ltd. (Rs. 15160.00,+2.75%), Siemens Ltd. (Rs. 3990.90,+2.33%),.
IT index was at 30181.13 down by -68.08 points or by -0.23%. Mastek Ltd. (Rs. 1854.00,-2.05%), Tanla Platforms Ltd. (Rs. 603.40,-1.73%), Zensar Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 510.35,-1.51%), 63 Moons Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 887.00,-1.25%), Affle 3I Ltd. (Rs. 1643.00,-1.20%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 3467 , shares advanced were 2038 while 1219 shares declined and 210 were unchanged.