Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined on Monday weighed down by losses in services and realty stocks and sustained foreign fund outflows.
At 11:20 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 85383.74 down by -328.63 points or by -0.38 % and then NSE Nifty was at 26061.15 down by -125.3 points or by -0.48 %.
Sensex touched intraday high of 85722.97 and intraday low of 85331.22 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 26178.7 and intraday low of 26059.15
The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1583.90,+0.89%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1693.60,+0.64%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1624.80,+0.55%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 3251.10,+0.38%), among others.
The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 853.45,-1.90%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 287.20,-1.78%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1030.30,-1.73%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1266.85,-1.25%), Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2934.85,-1.09%), among others.
IT index was at 37404.68 up by 40.24 points or by 0.11%. Latent View Analytics Ltd. (Rs. 484.40,+7.45%), Magellanic Cloud Ltd. (Rs. 28.18,+4.99%), Black Box Ltd. (Rs. 537.20,+1.96%), BLS E-Services Ltd. (Rs. 212.25,+1.43%), Control Print Ltd. (Rs. 734.10,+1.06%),.
Realty index was at 6754.04 down by -182.05 points or by -2.62%. Anant Raj Ltd. (Rs. 505.00,-4.05%), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. (Rs. 1624.20,-3.91%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 2001.70,-3.87%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 694.85,-3.48%), Lodha Developers Ltd. (Rs. 1088.95,-2.04%),.
The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4263 , shares advanced were 1270 while 2753 shares declined and 240 were unchanged.