Raw petroleum prospects shut higher in the local market on Tuesday as values and different resources saw as unsafe posted a halfway bounceback from Monday's sharp selloff.

Shares of Hero MotoCorp and Wipro were trading slightly down. Bharti Airtel continued leading the Sensex index.

The BSE Smallcap index was trading flat at 17,603 around 11:20 am (IST) on Wednesday, while the equity benchmark Sensex was 0.51 per cent down at 33,685.

Mentha oil futures were trading lower during the morning trade in the domestic market on Wednesday

Mentha oil futures were trading higher during the morning trade in the domestic market on Friday amid pick-up in demand at domestic spot market and restricted supplies from producing regions.

Upwards of 30 banks marked down the bills in light of PNB's LoUs. The misrepresentation,