Domestic bourses continued to extend losses during the noon trading session weighed down by selling in index heavyweights including IndusInd Bank Ltd, Eternal Ltd. Nestle India Ltd. Tata Steel Ltd. (Bajaj Finance Ltd. among others.

At 14:45 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 85123.1 down by -589.27 points or by -0.69 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25912.5 down by -273.95 points or by -1.05 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 85722.97 and intraday low of 84875.59 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 26178.7 and intraday low of 25892.25

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1587.20,+1.11%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1688.10,+0.31%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1004.00,+0.09%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 837.80,-3.70%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 284.95,-2.55%), Nestle India Ltd. (Rs. 1215.90,-2.47%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 163.40,-2.21%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1025.85,-2.16%), among others.

IT index was at 37113.3 up by -251.14 points or by -0.67%. Latent View Analytics Ltd. (Rs. 487.00,+8.03%), Magellanic Cloud Ltd. (Rs. 28.18,+4.99%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1588.00,+1.16%), Rashi Peripherals Ltd. (Rs. 327.00,+0.60%), BLS E-Services Ltd. (Rs. 210.50,+0.60%),.

Realty index was at 6678.04 down by -258.05 points or by -3.72%. Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1959.00,-5.92%), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. (Rs. 1604.05,-5.10%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 686.95,-4.58%), Anant Raj Ltd. (Rs. 503.10,-4.41%), Sobha Ltd. (Rs. 1474.90,-4.05%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4612 , shares advanced were 925 while 3470 shares declined and 217 were unchanged.