Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rallied on Tuesday as reports of second round of talks between US and Iran are keeping hopes of resolution to the West Asia conflict alive.
At 10:27 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 79007.54 up by 487.24 points or by 0.62 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24513.45 up by 148.6 points or by 0.61 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 79096.65 and intraday low of 78522.96 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24524.85 and intraday low of 24354.9
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2566.70,+2.00%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 2271.75,+1.62%), Trent Ltd. (Rs. 4307.55,+1.52%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 258.30,+1.37%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1374.00,+1.33%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Reliance Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1361.05,-0.11%), Bharat Electronics Ltd. (Rs. 457.25,-0.09%), State Bank of India (Rs. 1106.70,-0.08%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 304.85,-0.05%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 4512.75,0.00%), among others.
Realty index was at 6190.89 up by 138.5 points or by 2.29%. Sobha Ltd. (Rs. 1360.00,+3.69%), Anant Raj Ltd. (Rs. 522.60,+3.15%), Phoenix Mills Ltd. (Rs. 1819.60,+2.98%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1810.40,+2.93%), Lodha Developers Ltd. (Rs. 880.60,+2.89%),.
_IT index was at 30564.15 down by 109.23 points or by 0.36%. VL E-Governance & IT Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 15.42,-4.40%), InfoBeans Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 178.65,-1.71%), IRIS RegTech Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 240.50,-1.25%), Digitide Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 93.86,-1.05%), BLS E-Services Ltd. (Rs. 171.90,-0.92%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4056 , shares advanced were 2796 while 1059 shares declined and 201 were unchanged.