Sensex ends up 240 points at 19,603

The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 184 points at 19,547. After dropping to a low of 19,447, the index zoomed to a high of 19,619 on fresh buying in energy and technology stocks.

The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 240 points at 19,603. The Nifty gains 102 points at 5,865.

The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,854 stocks traded, 2,084 advanced, 712 declined and 58 were unchanged.

The BSE Oil & Gas index soared 3.5% to 12,786. The Metal and Power indices surged over 3% each to 18,281 and 4484, respectively.
 

Major Gainers			Major Losers
Name	Close	% Chg	Name	Close	% Chg
Essar Oil	291.35	20.4	Media Video	66.25	20.0
NCL Inds	70.50	20.0	Mukand CRPS	3.10	10.9
Videocon Inds	491.70	20.0	Integ Fin	31.55	9.9
Liberty Shoes	23.70	20.0	Madan Fin	6.62	9.8
Varun Inds	111.30	20.0	UniRoyal	6.43	9.6
(Close = Stock pirce at the end of day in Rs)

Index Movers...

Reliance Energy zoomed over 9% to Rs 1,900. Wipro soared over 7% to Rs 493.

Reliance Communications surged 4.5% to Rs 712. TCS rallied nearly 4% to Rs 1,053.

Hindalco moved up over 3% to Rs 192. BHEL and Reliance advanced around 3% each to Rs 2,761 and Rs 2,932, respectively.

Mahindra & Mahindra and Bajaj Auto gained 2.5% each at Rs 751 and Rs 2,776, respectively. Maruti added 2% to Rs 1,032.

Satyam was up 1.8% at Rs 448. Tata Steel, ITC, Ambuja Cements, NTPC and Ranbaxy were the other major gainers.

...And The Shakers

ICICI Bank and Bharti Airtel slipped 1.6% each to Rs 1,165 and Rs 924, respectively.

HDFC was down over 1% at Rs 2,746.

Value & Volume Toppers

IDFC topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 1,215.70 crore followed by Essar Oil (Rs 660.50 crore), IFCI (Rs 459.30 crore), Reliance Petroleum (Rs 371.90 crore) and Reliance Energy (Rs 315.75 crore).

IDFC led the volume chart with trades of around 5.89 crore shares followed by IFCI (4.39 crore), Tata Teleservices (2.42 crore), Ispat Industries (2.42 crore) and Essar Oil (2.33  crore).