Indian equities bounced back on Thursday snapping earlier losses. At 9.54 a.m, the Sensex was trading up 11.49 points or 0.03% at 36,384.93 with 12 components gaining. Meanwhile, the Nifty was trading lower by 20.15 points or 0.18% at 10,960.30 with 35 components falling.

Biggest gainers in the 30-share index were Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (1.72%), Bharti Airtel (1.56%), Mahindra & Mahindra (1.36%), Asian Paints (0.75%), Hindustan Unilever (0.68%), and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (0.62%).

On the other hand, Housing Development Finance Corp (0.66%), Tata Consultancy Services (0.58%), Hero Motocorp (0.57%), Coal India (0.83%) and Indusind Bank (0.39%) were the biggest losers in the Sensex.

Market breadth was negative with 390 advances against 1,065 declines.

AU Small Finance Bank topped the value chart on the BSE with a turnover of Rs. 620.61 million. It was followed by Ashok Leyland (Rs. 288.87 million), Tata Chemicals (Rs. 280.15 million) and Tata Steel (Rs. 146.36 million).

The volume chart was led by Ashok Leyland with trades of over 2.67 million shares. It was followed by Reliance Communications (2.48 million), PC Jeweller (1.18 million) and Jaiprakash Associates (1.18 million).