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Domestic bourses continued to trade higher during the noon trading session supported by buying in index heavyweights including Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., Tata Steel Ltd. Bharti Airtel Ltd. and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. among others.

At 14:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 62872.26 up by 190.42 points or by 0.3 % and then NSE Nifty was at 18672.4 up by 54.35 points or by 0.29 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 62909.64 and intraday low of 62648.38 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 18679.55 and intraday low of 18616.55

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1288.90,+2.54%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Rs. 222.95,+1.66%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 107.40,+1.23%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 844.80,+1.09%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 2659.90,+1.01%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1167.50,-1.06%), State Bank of India (Rs. 602.75,-0.93%), Nestle India Ltd. (Rs. 19941.80,-0.88%), ITC Ltd. (Rs. 339.90,-0.69%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1044.00,-0.53%), among others.

Metal index was at 20211.98 up by 343.04 points or by 1.73%. Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (Rs. 532.00,+3.34%), APL Apollo Tubes Ltd. (Rs. 1107.95,+3.12%), Hindalco Industries Ltd. (Rs. 449.20,+3.09%), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) Ltd. (Rs. 84.60,+2.30%), National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Rs. 76.80,+1.79%),.

PSU index was at 10013.51 down by 5.87 points or by 0.06%. Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 33.30,-5.53%), Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (Rs. 74.00,-4.95%), The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (Rs. 110.00,-4.39%), NLC India Ltd. (Rs. 84.95,-2.64%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (Rs. 119.80,-2.48%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 3769 , shares advanced were 2098 while 1521 shares declined and 150 were unchanged.