The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 109 points at 20,075, and hit a high of 20,096 in early deals.
The index, however, could not hold gains, and profit-taking saw the index drop to a low of 19,834 in noon deals.
The Sensex finally closed with a marginal loss of 35 points at 19,931. The NSE Nifty ended at 5,961, down 13 points.
The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices gained over 1% each at 9117 and 11,531, respectively.
The market breadth was extremely bullish - out of 2,903 scrips traded, 2,060 logged gains.
INDEX LOSERS....
TCS slipped 2.4% to Rs 1,036.
BHEL declined over 2% to Rs 2,677. Cipla also closed with a loss of over 2% at Rs 193.
HDFC and HDFC Bank dropped over 1.5% each to Rs 2,872 and Rs 1,693, respectively.
Reliance was down nearly 1% at Rs 2,822.
..... AND GAINERS
Hindalco moved up nearly 3% to Rs 193.
ICICI Bank gained over 2% to Rs 1,274. Infosys added 1.8% to close at Rs 1,748. DLF moved up over 1% to Rs 1,026.
MOST ACTIVE COUNTERS
Tata Teleservices was the most active counter with a turnover of Rs 232 crore followed by Reliance Petroleum (Rs 212 crore), Ispat (Rs 191 crore), Essar Oil (Rs 183 crore) and IFCI (Rs 150 crore).
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