Mumbai: Second-rung software counters were in limelight at opening session on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on March 11 following good speculative buying on the back of sustained rally on the Wall Street.

Barring frontline IT stocks like Infosys Tech and Satyam Computer, other software counters attracted brisk buying support from operators as well as retail investors due to mainly sharp spurt of 48 points in the NASDAQ Composite Index on March 9.

Reflecting the trend, the BSE-30 share sensitive index resumed firm at 3,675.26 and gradually declined to a low of 3,633.79 before being quoted at 3,636.61 at 10.35 hours (IST) as against last weekend's close of 3,656.77.

Select public sector undertakings (PSU) counters continued their downward march on profit-selling by local institutions.

PTI