Domestic bourses continued to trade higher during the noon trading session supported by buying in index heavyweights including Eternal Ltd. ICICI Bank Ltd. State Bank of India, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.and Bharti Airtel Ltd. Bharti Airtel Ltd. among others.

At 14:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 78570.15 up by 1525.86 points or by 1.98 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23834.05 up by 396.85 points or by 1.69 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 78616.04 and intraday low of 76665.77 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23871.6 and intraday low of 23298.55

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 231.45,+4.23%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1405.45,+3.59%), State Bank of India (Rs. 798.30,+3.44%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1749.50,+3.36%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1884.05,+3.35%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1304.70,-0.33%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1430.60,-0.11%), among others.

Bankex index was at 62432.21 up by 1696.15 points or by 2.79%. ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1406.65,+3.68%), State Bank of India (Rs. 798.70,+3.49%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1198.95,+3.22%), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Rs. 2190.80,+3.19%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1910.70,+1.75%),.

IT index was at 32835.4 down by -31.59 points or by -0.1%. Sonata Software Ltd. (Rs. 314.05,-6.32%), Wipro Ltd. (Rs. 237.10,-4.20%), Vakrangee Ltd. (Rs. 9.72,-2.70%), 63 Moons Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 722.20,-2.64%), LTIMindtree Ltd. (Rs. 4188.30,-2.02%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4267 , shares advanced were 2574 while 1500 shares declined and 193 were unchanged.