Dalal Street continues to trade on a positive note but is off the high point of the day with Nifty up 10 points, trading at 11,734, while the Sensex added 83 points and is trading at 39,065.
PSU Banks along with real estate stocks are the top performers led by Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank, Syndicate Bank, Indian Bank, Bank of India and Canara Bank.
From the real estate space, the top gainers are DLF which jumped 3 percent followed by Prestige Estates, Oberoi Realty and Sobha.
Selective infra stocks are also buzzing led by Bharti Infratel, Bharti Airtel, Interglobe Aviation, NHPC, NTPC, Reliance Communications, Reliance Power, Siemens and Larsen & Toubro.
Defensive stocks are down led by TCS, Tech Mahindra and HCL Tech which are down 2 percent each followed by Wipro, Mindtree, Infosys and Tata Elxsi.
From the pharma space, the top losers are Cadila Healthcare, Aurobindo Pharma, Lupin, Divis Labs, GSK Pharma and Piramal Enterprises.
From the BSE midcap space, the top gainers are Reliance Power, Bharat Forge, Adani Transmission, M&M Financial Services and Federal Bank while the top losers are Tata Communications, L&T Finance and Motilal Oswal.
From the BSE smallcap space, the top gainers are Uniply Industries which zoomed 18 percent followed by Apollo Micro Systems, 63 Moons and Ruchi Soya while the top losers are Mcleod Russel, VIP Clothing and Time Technoplast.
India VIX is up 2.92 percent at 23.65 levels.
The top Nifty gainers include NTPC, Tata Motors, Bharti Airtel, Bharti Infratel and ICICI Bank while TCS, Britannia Industries, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech and Wipro are the top losers.
The most active stocks are YES Bank, Reliance Industries, Tata Motors, ICICI Bank and TCS.
Stocks which hit 52-week high on the NSE included Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bajaj Finance, Balrampur Chini Mills and 63 Moons while on the other hand, Cadila Healthcare, Godrej Consumer Products, IL&FS Transportation Networks, Kohinoor Foods, Mcleod Russel, Mcnally Bharat Engineering, TV Today Network, UFO Moviez and VIP Clothing have hit new 52-week low on the NSE.
Over 100 stocks are trading at 52-week low level including names like Mercator, Godrej Consumer, Igarashi Motors, Cadila Healthcare, UFO Moviez India Ltd., TVS Srichakra, IL&FS Transportation Networks, Nagarjuna Oil and SPML Infra among others.
The breadth of the market favoured the declines as 736 stocks advanced and 968 declined while 394 remained unchanged. On the BSE, 986 stocks advanced, 1327 declined and 171 remained unchanged.
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