Domestic bourses continued to trade higher during the noon trading session supported by buying in index heavyweights including Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.Eternal Ltd. Tata Steel Ltd.Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd.among others.

At 14:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 84869.05 up by 477.78 points or by 0.57 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25886.1 up by 128.1 points or by 0.5 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 84898.19 and intraday low of 84150.19 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25919.2 and intraday low of 25693.25

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Rs. 2185.90,+2.66%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 290.85,+2.65%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 166.05,+2.37%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 16245.80,+1.51%), Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. (Rs. 347.70,+1.28%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2786.25,-0.66%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 2055.35,-0.55%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1006.00,-0.44%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1361.75,-0.18%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1276.85,-0.15%), among others.

Metal index was at 34004.76 up by 369.59 points or by 1.1%. Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 166.10,+2.40%), Hindustan Zinc Ltd. (Rs. 522.75,+1.98%), NMDC Ltd. (Rs. 75.44,+1.45%), Vedanta Ltd. (Rs. 529.90,+1.13%), Coal India Ltd. (Rs. 385.00,+0.71%),.

Oil&Gas index was at 27671.86 down by -6.83 points or by -0.02%. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 351.00,-1.24%), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 161.70,-0.83%), Indraprastha Gas Ltd. (Rs. 183.80,-0.46%), Adani Total Gas Ltd. (Rs. 588.20,-0.25%), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 448.30,-0.22%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4428 , shares advanced were 2520 while 1708 shares declined and 200 were unchanged.