Domestic bourses continued to trade higher on Monday supported by buying in index heavyweights including Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, Tata Motors Ltd. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd.and Tata Steel Ltd. among others.

At 14:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 80821.51 up by 110.75 points or by 0.14 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24874.9 up by 133.9 points or by 0.54 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 81171.38 and intraday low of 80765.53 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24885.5 and intraday low of 24758.5

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3703.90,+4.00%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 716.85,+3.61%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 15262.15,+2.40%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1352.00,+2.28%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 169.80,+1.28%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Nestle India Ltd. (Rs. 1187.55,-1.83%), Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2536.10,-1.66%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1405.60,-0.98%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1463.35,-0.97%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1430.45,-0.96%), among others.

Auto index was at 60748.75 up by 1865.66 points or by 3.17%. Bharat Forge Ltd. (Rs. 1206.15,+6.04%), Ashok Leyland Ltd. (Rs. 137.00,+4.62%), Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd. (Rs. 98.68,+4.31%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3704.00,+4.00%), Bajaj Auto Ltd. (Rs. 9435.00,+3.89%),.

IT index was at 33795.87 down by -253.23 points or by -0.74%. Onward Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 325.80,-4.99%), InfoBeans Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 534.20,-4.33%), Datamatics Global Services Ltd. (Rs. 943.30,-2.28%), Persistent Systems Ltd. (Rs. 5025.45,-2.03%), Genesys International Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 618.05,-1.69%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4528 , shares advanced were 2428 while 1895 shares declined and 205 were unchanged.