Equity Benchmarks began the week on a positive note, Driven by a rally in banks as well as pharma stocks. The performance helped the Nifty Above to its 9500- marks. The Sensex was up 52.42 points at 31155.91, while the Nifty was up 11.25 points at 9618.15 the Market breadth, however was narrow as 776 shares advance against a decline of 880 shares declined, While 91 shares were unchanged. Reliance, Bank of baroda, Dreddy, Hindunilvr and ICICI Bank to gained the most on both indices, while Yesbank, CIPLA, ITC, HDFC and ACC lost the most.