Market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined on Friday, dragged down by financial stocks and rising crude oil prices.

At 10:45 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 78570.93 down by -383.83 points or by -0.49 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24574.85 down by -61.15 points or by -0.25 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 78757.4 and intraday low of 78451.99 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24630.4 and intraday low of 24529.2

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 2426.60,+2.39%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3452.60,+1.10%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1647.80,+0.78%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1349.55,+0.64%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1171.80,+0.57%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1095.90,-4.70%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (Rs. 2014.70,-3.57%), Trent Ltd. (Rs. 3030.05,-2.57%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1449.00,-1.89%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 1944.55,-0.99%), among others.

Auto index was at 64892.74 up by 675.28 points or by 1.05%. Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd. (Rs. 167.15,+8.54%), Exide Industries Ltd. (Rs. 487.40,+2.88%), Hero MotoCorp Ltd. (Rs. 5744.00,+2.19%), Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (Rs. 2485.15,+2.13%), Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd. (Rs. 798.80,+1.50%),.

Bankex index was at 65518.7 down by -374.46 points or by -0.57%. ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1449.00,-1.89%), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1081.30,-1.12%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1245.65,-0.59%), Bank of Baroda (Rs. 248.55,-0.58%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 733.80,-0.43%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4136 , shares advanced were 2024 while 1839 shares declined and 273 were unchanged.