The BSE-benchmarked Sensex today closed on flat note ahead of profit booking and on concerns ahead of forthcoming Union Budget on 6th July.

The BSE Sensex closed marginally higher by 13.02 points at 14,658.49 while NSE Nifty ended slightly up by 7.95 points at 4,348.85. The BSE Sensex touched intraday high of 14,764.35 and intraday low of 14,469.69.

Further, BSE Mid an Small Caps Indexes closed with gains 16.76 and 42.82 points at 5,144.27 and 5,800.24 respectively.

The market opened on Thursday at positive note tracking favorable cues from the global markets, but slipped on worries for inflation as it remained in negative terrain for third successive week.

However, market bounced back during mid session but, again after few minutes of trades, it again slipped into negative territory. The domestic market finally settled the extremely volatile session on flat note.

On the sectoral front, Metal, PSU, Reality, Pharma and Consumer Durables stocks witnessed most of the buying. While, Capital Goods, Auto and Technology stocks were remained out of favour.

Gainers from the BSE Sensex pack were ONGC Ltd (7.02%), Tata Steel (6.37%), Grasim Industries (4.20%), Sterlite Industries (3.75%), DLF Ltd (3.12%), Sun Pharma
(2.46%), HDFC (2.33%), NTPC Ltd (2.17%), Tata Power (2.04%), Reliance Infra (1.56%) and Hindalco (1.38%).

Losers from the BSE Sensex pack were BHEL (3.03%), Reliance (2.29%), Bharti Airtel (2.27%), RCom (1.83%), Tata Motors (1.67%), Maruti Suzuki (1.53%), SBI (1.17%), Herohonda Motors (0.96%) and HUL (0.88%).