Indian stock markets extended their winning ways on Tuesday amid buying in heavyweights like Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank, L&T, and ITC. However, profit booking in bank stocks capped upside.
At 9:45 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 82092.09 up by 301.97 points or by 0.37 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25118.55 up by 40.9 points or by 0.16 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 82098.95 and intraday low of 81787.48 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25139.7 and intraday low of 25076.3
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1024.05,+1.50%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 339.50,+1.33%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1378.15,+1.12%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 171.80,+1.09%), IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 747.20,+1.07%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1199.00,-1.11%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 2971.00,-0.57%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1469.00,-0.42%), State Bank of India (Rs. 871.65,-0.27%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 710.70,-0.25%), among others.
Oil&Gas index was at 27571.96 up by 211.54 points or by 0.77%. Petronet LNG Ltd. (Rs. 285.40,+1.80%), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 463.90,+1.75%), Adani Total Gas Ltd. (Rs. 644.20,+1.71%), GAIL (India) Ltd. (Rs. 178.40,+1.02%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 248.10,+0.87%),.
HCS index was at 43949.08 down by -33.44 points or by -0.08%. KMC Speciality Hospitals (India) Ltd. (Rs. 72.44,-2.12%), Shilpa Medicare Ltd. (Rs. 371.25,-1.69%), Shalby Ltd. (Rs. 260.95,-1.40%), GPT Healthcare Ltd. (Rs. 149.75,-1.38%), Indegene Ltd. (Rs. 563.45,-1.37%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 3610 , shares advanced were 2039 while 1373 shares declined and 198 were unchanged.