Equity benchmark indices continued to trade higher on Wednesday, rebounding from the previous session's sharp losses as buying in IT stocks, Reliance Industries and firm global cues lifted investors' sentiment.
At 10:35 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 74254.73 up by 401.83 points or by 0.54 % and then NSE Nifty was at 22936.05 up by 47.1 points or by 0.21 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 74682.19 and intraday low of 74070.54 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23120.9 and intraday low of 22924.15
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1168.45,+3.40%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1819.00,+2.31%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 10856.00,+2.22%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 2514.40,+2.17%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1404.65,+2.01%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 932.50,-2.56%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (Rs. 1675.75,-1.59%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 2863.10,-1.51%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 11344.00,-1.21%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 316.60,-1.20%), among others.
IT index was at 30666.11 up by 688.95 points or by 2.3%. L&T Technology Services Ltd. (Rs. 4020.20,+11.37%), Sasken Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1758.45,+7.08%), Tanla Platforms Ltd. (Rs. 577.00,+4.37%), Wipro Ltd. (Rs. 189.50,+4.12%), Fractal Analytics Ltd. (Rs. 741.20,+4.06%),.
_CGS index was at 71625.59 down by -1173.12 points or by -1.61%. Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd. (Rs. 938.55,-3.74%), ABB India Ltd. (Rs. 6727.80,-3.22%), GE Vernova T&D India Ltd. (Rs. 3802.20,-3.03%), Elgi Equipments Ltd. (Rs. 530.00,-2.68%), Apar Industries Ltd. (Rs. 15324.15,-2.60%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4195 , shares advanced were 1134 while 2816 shares declined and 245 were unchanged.