The Indian equity market ended on a muted note in the highly volatile session on November 13 ahead release of US CPI data and Bihar election outcome tomorrow morning.

Market erased the opening gains in the initial hours but regained strength later and crossed the 26,000-mark on an intraday basis. However, final hour selling erased all the day's gains to end with minor gains.

At close, the Sensex was up 12.16 points or 0.01 percent at 84,478.67, and the Nifty was up 3.35 points or 0.01 percent at 25,879.15.

Broader indices underperformed the main indices with BSE Midcap and smallcap indices shedding 0.3 percent each.

Nifty Bank index touched fresh 52-week high of 58,615.95, but ended marginally higher at 58,381.95.

Also Read: Inflation hits record low in October, but household costs t

See Full Page