Among the components of the BSE Commodities index, Neogen Chemicals Ltd (down 3.61%), Yasho Industries Ltd (down 3.56%),Steel Authority of India Ltd (down 3.56%),Saurashtra Cement Ltd (down 3.51%),MOIL Ltd (down 3.12%), were the top losers. Among the other losers were NMDC Ltd (down 3.05%), Jubilant Ingrevia Ltd (down 2.93%), GHCL Ltd (down 2.89%), S H Kelkar & Company Ltd (down 2.76%), and Solar Industries India Ltd (down 2.64%).

On the other hand, Premier Explosives Ltd (up 10%), Vidhi Specialty Food Ingredients Ltd (up 6.54%), and Bhansali Engineering Polymers Ltd (up 5.83%) moved up.

At 13:42 IST, the BSE SmallCap was down 292.81 or 0.51% at 56832.33.

The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was down 63.93 points or 0.39% at 16376.81.

The Nifty 50 index was up 156.55 points or 0.64% at 24705.25.

The BSE Sensex index was up 612.58 points or 0.75% at 81902.54.

On BSE,1563 shares were trading in green, 2376 were trading in red and 119 were unchanged.