Sensex steady; Midcap, smallcap outperform

The Sensex continues to exhibit firm trend and is now at 17,783, up 90 points. The NSE Nifty is 29 points higher at 5,319.

The midcap index has added 1% at 6,930. Core Projects and Godrej Industries have advanced 4% each to Rs 243 and Rs 154, respectively.

The smallcap index has advanced 1% on the BSE. shree Ram Mills and Lloyds metal have added 13-17% each.

Among the Sensex-30 stocks, Tata Power, ICICI Bank and DLF have advanced 2% each to Rs 1,382, Rs 970 and Rs 317, respectively.

Reliance Infrastructure, Tata Steel, Mahindra & Mahindra and Hero Honda have added 1.5% each.

Hindustan Unilever has slipped 1.5% to Rs 227. Infosys and Wipro were down 1% each on the BSE.

Among the sectoral indices, realty and bankex indices have added 1% each on the BSE.

While the IT index has slipped 1% to 5,312.

The market breadth is positive, out of 2,386 shares traded, 1,797 have advanced and 536 have declined so far on the BSE.