After opening with a positive gap of 105 points at 19,708, the Sensex pared gains in early trades, and exhibited lacklustre movement for the major part of the day today.
A fresh round of selling in late noon trades saw the index slip to a low of 19,482 - down 226 points from the day's open. The Sensex finally ended with a loss of 74 points at 19,530.
The Nifty ends down 7 points at 5,858.
The BSE Mid-cap and Small-cap indices moved up 1.6% each to 8905 and 10,957, respectively.
The Consumer Durables index soared over 6% to 6083. The Metal index surged over 3% to 18,869, and the Auto index gained 1.7% at 5639.
The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,864 stocks traded, 1,931 advanced, 880 declined and 53 were unchanged today.
INDEX SHAKERS...
Reliance shed 2.3% to Rs 2,864. TCS and ICICI Bank slipped over 2% each to Rs 1,030 and Rs 1,140, respectively.
Satyam dropped 1.6% to Rs 441. ONGC and Ranbaxy were down over 1% each at Rs 1,157 and Rs 388, respectively.
...AND THE MOVERS
Tata Steel soared over 4% to Rs 873. Mahindra & Mahindra rallied 2.8% to Rs 772.
BHEL surged 2% to Rs 2,815. Ambuja Cements and Larsen & Toubro gained over 1% each at Rs 154 and Rs 4,229, respectively.
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Major Gainers |
Major Losers | ||||
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Name |
Close |
% Chg |
Name |
Close |
% Chg |
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Wire & Wireless |
86.10 |
22.7 |
Media Video |
53.05 |
19.9 |
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Zodiac JRDMK |
39.30 |
20.0 |
Anil SP |
21.70 |
19.6 |
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Arrow Coat |
42.00 |
20.0 |
Lippi Sys |
6.30 |
16.0 |
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Intl Hometex |
13.08 |
20.0 |
Apm Inds |
25.50 |
13.6 |
|
Freshtrop |
143.70 |
20.0 |
Garg Furn |
31.25 |
12.0 |
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(Close = Stock pirce at the end of day in Rs) | |||||
VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS
Jindal Steel topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 471 crore followed by Essar Oil (Rs 453.50 crore), Mundra Port (Rs 332 crore), ONGC (Rs 242.70 crore) and IFCI (Rs 200 crore).
Ispat Industries led the volume chart with trades of around 2.48 crore shares followed by Ashok Leyland (1.99 crore), IFCI (1.88 crore), Chambal Fertilisers (1.70 crore) and Tata Teleservices (1.69 crore).