Domestic bourses continued to trade lower during the noon trading session as traders became worried about the economic outlook due to firm oil prices against the backdrop of US-Iran war.

At 14:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 77154.45 down by -1764.45 points or by -2.24 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23899.15 down by -551.3 points or by -2.25 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 77333.85 and intraday low of 76424.55 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23959.7 and intraday low of 23697.8

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1807.80,+0.49%), Reliance Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1410.00,+0.34%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 11365.00,-5.19%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3168.05,-4.97%), State Bank of India (Rs. 1087.50,-4.90%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 13479.60,-4.73%), InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (Rs. 4215.55,-4.29%), among others.

_IT index was at 29026.08 up by -193.28 points or by -0.66%. R Systems International Ltd. (Rs. 294.70,+14.20%), Dynacons Systems & Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 923.75,+4.40%), Affle 3I Ltd. (Rs. 1388.75,+2.76%), Wipro Ltd. (Rs. 197.05,+0.79%), Sonata Software Ltd. (Rs. 248.40,+0.69%),.

Auto index was at 57217.32 down by -2612.54 points or by -4.37%. Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. (Rs. 329.65,-6.00%), Bosch Ltd. (Rs. 31530.00,-5.46%), Tube Investments of India Ltd. (Rs. 2584.75,-5.03%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3168.05,-4.97%), Bharat Forge Ltd. (Rs. 1831.05,-4.81%)

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4654 , shares advanced were 834 while 3623 shares declined and 197 were unchanged.