Indian benchmark indices extended their gains on Monday, with the Sensex and Nifty rallying sharply as robust buying interest in financial, automobile, real estate and consumer-oriented stocks boosted overall market sentiment.
At 12:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 76475.11 up by 947.16 points or by 1.25 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23894.75 up by 271.85 points or by 1.15 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 76821.07 and intraday low of 76405.69 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24011.4 and intraday low of 23893.8
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Trent Ltd. (Rs. 2895.25,+5.10%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 254.50,+4.39%), InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (Rs. 4907.05,+4.21%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 13904.05,+3.98%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (Rs. 1755.95,+3.95%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 349.40,-1.29%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1805.00,-0.12%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1339.40,-0.07%), Bharat Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 406.40,-0.04%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 2167.35,-0.01%), among others.
Realty index was at 6259.87 up by 249.37 points or by 4.15%. Embassy Developments Ltd. (Rs. 62.55,+5.89%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1773.30,+4.95%), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. (Rs. 1452.50,+4.78%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 615.05,+4.75%), Phoenix Mills Ltd. (Rs. 1838.25,+4.54%),.
HCS index was at 47275.25 down by -113.02 points or by -0.24%. Nephrocare Health Services Ltd. (Rs. 715.20,-4.63%), Shree Ganesh Remedies Ltd. (Rs. 575.00,-4.24%), Kwality Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Rs. 2404.95,-3.69%), Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (Rs. 1422.55,-3.38%), Granules India Ltd. (Rs. 744.00,-2.88%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4667 , shares advanced were 3313 while 1098 shares declined and 256 were unchanged.