Indian equities pared all its gains and fell into the negative zone as investors started booking profits in today's session.

The Sensex fell below 17K and continued to trade on a flat note. Consumer durables, metal, capital goods and PSU stocks showed resistance whereas IT and teck went down.

The BSE Midcap index surged 1.72% and the BSE Smallcap index was up by 1.30%.

Today, the 30-share index, BSE Sensex opened the day at 17,069.42, up 110.88 points.

At 1:05 p. m., Sensex stood at 16,941.73, down 16.81 points, after hitting a high of 17,120.56 and a low of 16,860.00. In the meantime, Nifty stood at 5,023.70, down 3.70 points. It touched a high of
5,077.00 and a low of 4,997.15.

Among sectoral indices, BSE Consumer Durables remained the top gainer with 4.31%, followed by Metal, which surged 2.82%, Capital Goods gained 1.60%, PSU climbed 1.51% and HC zoomed 1.41%.

BSE IT dropped 2.53%, TECk fell 1.96%, Auto lost 0.3% and FMCG was down by 0.06%.

The top gainers in the 30-share index included Sterlite Industries (India), which surged 5.36%, JP Asso increased 3.51%, BHEL climbed 2.85%, Hindalco zoomed 2.83%, Tata Steel gained
2.07% and HDFC Bank soared up by 1.45%.

On the other hand, the major losers in the Sensex pack were Maruti Suzuki India fell 3.51%, TCS declined 3.19%, Wipro dropped 3.09%, Infosys slipped 2.72%, Grasim Ind shed 2.27% and RCom decreased 1.64%.