Benchmark indices BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 recovered partially from their intraday lows but continued to trade sharply lower in afternoon session on Monday amid persistent weakness in consumer durable, PSU banking, realty, and oil & gas stocks.

At 14:25 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 76464.54 down by -863.65 points or by -1.12 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23958.95 down by -217.2 points or by -0.9 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 76678.52 and intraday low of 76165.57 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23997.45 and intraday low of 23845.3

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1873.00,+1.39%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1776.95,+0.95%), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Rs. 384.25,+0.92%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1281.00,+0.91%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 2306.00,+0.79%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 4231.15,-6.25%), InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (Rs. 4315.70,-4.57%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 246.15,-3.98%), State Bank of India (Rs. 980.10,-3.87%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1769.15,-3.58%), among others.

HCS index was at 46938.43 up by 403.54 points or by 0.87%. IOL Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Rs. 111.14,+14.60%), Advanced Enzyme Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 401.75,+12.44%), Themis Medicare Ltd. (Rs. 107.20,+9.43%), Novartis India Ltd. (Rs. 1200.25,+7.88%), Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Ltd. (Rs. 770.90,+7.44%),.

CDS index was at 58710.77 down by -1843.55 points or by -3.04%. Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd. (Rs. 388.95,-8.41%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 4231.15,-6.25%), Berger Paints (India) Ltd. (Rs. 496.10,-3.86%), PG Electroplast Ltd. (Rs. 514.50,-3.01%), Amber Enterprises India Ltd. (Rs. 8600.75,-2.51%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4680 , shares advanced were 1573 while 2880 shares declined and 227 were unchanged.