The Sensex is lower by 50 points at 20,054, and the Nifty is at 6015 down 13 points.
The broader markets are trading flat, The Mid-cap index is up three points at 8161 and the Small-cap index is at 10,315 up 31 points.
Ispat Industries is the top gainer among the Mid-caps the stock is up 4.4% at Rs 23 followed by Graphite India, Anant Raj Industtries, Wyeth, Alstom Projects and Sun Pharma Adavanced Research Company up more than 3% each.
Meanwhile, Tanla Solutions has continued the upmove consecutively for the second day up 8% at Rs 31. Seamec, Sujana Towers, eClerx Services and Sonata Software are up more than 6% each.
Profit booking ahead of the derivatives expiry tomorrow is visible in metal, Oil & Gas, PSU and FMCG stocks.
Sterlite Industries is the top loser among the Metal stocks down 7% at Rs 164 followed by Hindustan Zinc, Sesa Goa and Welspun Corporation.
Among the Oil & Gas stocks state run HPCL, BPCL, IOCL and ONGC are the top losers.
Meanwhilew Realty index lead the rally among the key sectoral indices up 0.75% at 3787 followed by Power, Healthcare and IT indices.
Anant Raj Industries is the top gainer among the Realty stocks up 4% at Rs 143, DLF, Unitech and D B realty are up more than 075% each.
DLF leads the rally among the Sensex stocks up 1.34% at Rs 383 followed by BHEL, Tata Steel, Hindustan Unilever and SBI.
Whereas, Sterlite Industries leads the Sensex losers chart down 7% at Rs 163. ONGC, Bharti Airtel, HDFC, Cipla and Reliance Infrastructure are the other losers on the Sensex.
