Equity benchmark indices traded with marginal gains in the mid-trading session after muted opening on Thursday.
Market experts believe that investors will stage wait-and-watch approach looking for clues from the Trump-Putin summit. Markets are closed tomorrow, Friday, for Independence Day.
Sensex rose by 134.64 pts or 0.17 per cent to 80,674.55 as at 12.41 pm, and Nifty 50 was up 30.25 pts or 0.12 per cent at 24,649.60.
Both midcap and smallcap indices dropped to trade in the negative range. On the sectoral front, IT and consumer durables traded with marginal gains. Banking and financial stocks staged resilience. Meanwhile, metal index dragged over 1 per cent. Realty, oil & gas, FMCG, pharma and auto indexes dipped.
Top gainers & losers intraday
Among the Sensex firms, Wipro, Infosys, HDFC Life, Eternal, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank led the gainers, while Tata Steel, Adani Ports, BEL, UltraTech Cement and Hindalco dragged the most.
Metal stocks such as NMDC, Jindal Steel, SAIL, Vedanta also declined close to 3 per cent.
Nearly 1,188 stocks advanced and 1,604 declined of all the 2,877 stocks that were traded on the National Stock Exchange at the time of writing. Muthoot Finance, Choice International, Cartrade Tech, Delhivery, Eternal, Hyundai, ixigo and M&M were among 54 stocks that hit a 52-week high. Bata India, Deepak Nitrite, Vodafone Idea were among 48 that hit a 52-week low.
About 56 shares featuring SML ISUZU and Indo Tech hit the upper circuit and 43 stocks including Pasupati Acrylon traded at the lower circuit.
Under the midcap segment, Kalyan Jewellers, Tata Communications, Vishal Mega Mart, Ola Electric and Muthoot Finance zoomed 5-10 per cent to trade in positive territory, while Max Health, NHPC, NMDC, Vodafone Idea and Oil India declined 2-4 per cent.
Smallcap stocks such as Newgen, Manappuram, Reliance Power, HBL Engineering and CreditAccess gained 3-7 per cent, while Brigade, ITI, GRSE, Bata India and Aegis Logistics fell 3-7 per cent.
Pfizer and Bajaj Housing shares also climbed 4-5 per cent on the BSE, while Samhi Hotels and Surya Roshni plunged 7-11 per cent.
In addition, shares of Ashok Leyland, IOC, Vodafone Idea, Patanjali Foods, Borosil, Glenmark Pharma and more will remain in focus today due to Q1 results. Catch live updates
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Published on August 14, 2025
