The Sensex and Nifty trimmed their losses in afternoon trade on Friday, supported by gains in IT and banking stocks, although weakness in auto, metal and oil & gas shares kept the benchmark indices in negative territory.

At 14:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 76086.16 down by -305.23 points or by -0.4 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23776 down by -93.6 points or by -0.39 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 76210.95 and intraday low of 75474.43 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23823.6 and intraday low of 23606.3

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1269.20,+1.96%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 284.10,+0.96%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1231.80,+0.72%), Trent Ltd. (Rs. 2893.20,+0.66%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 2255.75,+0.60%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1010.50,-2.79%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3152.00,-2.38%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 280.20,-2.27%), InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (Rs. 4926.00,-1.95%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1894.00,-1.92%), among others.

IT index was at 27661.05 up by 128.76 points or by 0.47%. BLS E-Services Ltd. (Rs. 283.30,+7.51%), KPIT Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 582.45,+5.81%), Dynacons Systems & Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 1241.20,+5.00%), Tata Elxsi Ltd. (Rs. 3546.95,+4.71%), Innovana Thinklabs Ltd. (Rs. 336.75,+4.18%),.

Auto index was at 59760.24 down by -593.69 points or by -0.98%. Hero MotoCorp Ltd. (Rs. 5028.95,-2.80%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3152.00,-2.38%), Tube Investments of India Ltd. (Rs. 2764.30,-2.11%), Apollo Tyres Ltd. (Rs. 418.15,-1.37%), Bajaj Auto Ltd. (Rs. 11139.70,-1.23%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4519 , shares advanced were 1958 while 2316 shares declined and 245 were unchanged.