At 12.52 hrs IST, the Nifty was trading flat with positive bias. It was a quiet session for the markets as Nifty was consolidating around 5450 mark. IT stocks saw significant buying post stellar results from IT major Cognizant. Telecom, capital goods and power stocks also saw decent buying interest. Selling was seen in banks, oil&gas and FMCG stocks. BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices were up 0.13% and 0.57% respectively.
The Sensex was up 39.41 points or 0.22% at 18154.24, and the Nifty was up 7.70 points or 0.14% at 5447.25. About 1622 shares have advanced, 1387 shares declined, and 353 shares were unchanged.
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In the largecap space, TCS, Infosys, Reliance Communications, Wipro and BHEL were up 2-3%. On the losing side, PNB, Axis Bank, Sun Pharma, Jaiprakash Associates and ACC were down 1.2-2%.
Index heavyweight Reliance was trading at Rs 1,018.95 down 0.71% from its previous close of Rs 1,026.20. Refinery major HPCL was trading at Rs 439.50 down 0.51% from its previous close of Rs 441.75. Tech major Infosys was trading at Rs 2,855.60 up 2.55% from its previous close of Rs 2,784.55.
Cigarette major ITC was trading at Rs 152.75 down 0.88% from its previous close of Rs 154.10. Hindustan Lever was trading at Rs 254.60 up 0.39% from its previous close of Rs 253.60.
Top gainers on the BSE Midcap: Hathway Cable, Bayer Cropscience, Indiabulls, M&M Financial and Thermax were up 4-5%.
Top losers on the BSE Midcap: Punj Lloyd, MVL, Jubilant Foodworks, KGN Industries and Kansai Nerolac were down 2-4%.
Top gainers on the BSE Smallcap: Talwalkars Fitness, VIP Industries, Ashiana Housing, Kewal Kiran and English Ind Cla were up 9-11%.
Top losers on the BSE Smallcap: Garden Silk Mills, AP Paper Mills, Welspun India, REI Six Ten and Religare Technova were down 3.5-8%.
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