In the afternoon deals the stock markets came off the intraday low levels. The Sensex was down 127 points at 25,215 and Nifty was down 42 points at 7,696. Around 1:59 p.m. Shares of infrastructure firm KEC International (KEC) on Friday rose nearly 5 per cent after the company bagged new orders worth Rs 836 crore in segments including transmission and distribution. The stock jumped 4.83 per cent to Rs 128 on BSE. At NSE, shares of the company climbed 4.17 per cent to Rs 127.40.