HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra, Infosys, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank shed around a percent eachThe criteria indices ended partially lower, after opening at fresh all-time highs, due to mild profit-booking at greater levels set off by selling pressure in infotech and choose financial shares.
The BSE Sensex ended at 53,140.06, lower by 18.79 points or 0.04 percent and the NSE Nifty closed at 15,923.40, down 0.80 points or 0.01 percent.
The more comprehensive markets nevertheless surpassed the largecap peers, with the BSE Midcap index and BSE Smallcap index getting 0.5 per cent and 0.4 percent respectively.In the currency market, the rupee has inched higher by 3 paise to 74.51 against the dollar.
At the interbank foreign exchange, the domestic system opened at 74.53 versus the dollar and then inched greater to 74.51.
On the other hand, the Zomato IPO has been subscribed 33.45 times thus far.
The IPO got quotes for 7.19 times in the retail category, 46.25 times in the QIB section and 26.45 times in the non-institutional category.
The IPO closes at 5 pm today.On the stock-specific front, information technology stocks saw profit-booking post recent gains with HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra and Infosys shedding 1-3 percent each on the BSE.
In the monetary space, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank and Axis Bank shed around a per cent each on the BSE.On the other hand, Bharti Airtel, Tata Steel, Reliance Industries and Ultratech bucked the sluggish trend to register gains of a per cent each on the BSE.And Wipro rebounded from day's lows to end higher by 0.32 percent at Rs 577.75 after the nation's leading software application services company reported its best-ever quarterly revenues in the first quarter of the present financial year.
Wipro's net earnings rose 9 per cent sequentially to Rs 3,243 crore from Rs 2,972 crore in the previous quarter.The BSE market breadth was favorable.
Out of 3,349 stocks traded on the BSE, there were 1786 advancing stocks as versus 1413 decreases.