Indian equities continued to rally for the second day on Wednesday on the back US personal income, US personal spending of healthy global cues. At 9.22 a.m, the Sensex was trading up 125.01 points or 0.47% at 26,649.56 with 24 components gaining. Meanwhile, the Nifty was trading higher by 38.55 points or 0.47% at 8,166.40 with 42 components gaining.
Major gainers in the 30-share index were Dr Reddy'S Laboratories (4.76%), ITC (4.64%), Cipla (4.32%), Hindustan Unilever (3.88%), Larsen & Toubro (3.80%), and State Bank Of India (2.84%).
On the other hand, Tata Consultancy Services (3.87%), Infosys (2.39%), Wipro (2.15%), Bajaj Auto (1.34%), Asian Paints (0.58%), and Tata Power Company (0.48%) were the major losers in the Sensex.
D L F topped the value chart on the BSE with a turnover of Rs. 70.23 million. It was followed by Future Consumer Enterprise (Rs. 51.74 million), Housing Development and Infrastructure (Rs. 27.44 million) and ARSS Infrastructure Projects (Rs. 24.57 million).
The volume chart was led by Unitech with trades of over 2.07 million shares. It was followed by Future Consumer Enterprise (2.05 million), Shrenuj & Company (1.71 million) and D L F (0.49 million).