Mumbai: Share values resumed barely steady and moved in a narrow range at opening session on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on May 8.

Select IT counters were quoted marginally higher on speculative buying by operators despite negative advices from NASDAQ, where the NASDAQ composite index declined by 16.95 points on May 7 night.

However, some of the old-economy stock attracted profit selling at higher levels and were quoted lower.

The BSE-30 share sensitive index opened steady at 2,980.25 as against May 7 close of 2,980.74 and was trapped in a narrow breadth of 2,983.51 and 2,969.24 before being quoted at 2,982.76 at 10.30 am (IST).

PTI