Sensex ends down 687 points, Ranbaxy gains 5%

Following yesterday's late selling, the Sensex opened with a negative gap of 121 points at 19,580. After exhibiting weakness in morning trades, the index touched a high of 19,716...only to slip to lower levels.

Relentless selling in the last one hour of trades saw the index tumble to a low of 18,930 - down 786 points from the day's high. The Sensex finally ended with a hefty loss of 3.5% (687 points) at 19,014. The index thus shed 8.7% (1,813 points) during the week.

The NSE Nifty plunged 3.5% (208 points) to 5,705. 

The BSE market breadth was extremely negative - out of 2,890 stocks traded, 2,505 declined, 362 advanced and 23 were unchanged today.

Index shakers...

Reliance slumped 6.5% to Rs 2,800. DLF tumbled 7.4% to Rs 1,006.

NTPC plunged 6.3% to Rs 240. ICICI Bank shed 5.8% at Rs 1,245, and HDFC Bank dropped 4.3% to Rs 1,576.

Reliance Energy shed 4% at Rs 2,124. Reliance Communications and Larsen & Toubro slipped 3.7% each to Rs 702 and Rs 3,930, respectively.

Tata Steel, Tata Motors and ONGC declined around 3.5% each to Rs 782, Rs 712 and Rs 1,209, respectively.

Mahindra & Mahindra and Maruti slipped over 3% each to Rs 728 and Rs 840, respectively.

Cipla and Hindalco also shed 3% each at Rs 202 and Rs 185, respectively.

SBI and BHEL declined 2% each to Rs 2,368 and Rs 2,302, respectively.

TCS and ITC also dropped 2% each at Rs 904 and Rs 213, respectively.

...and the movers

Ranbaxy soared 5% to Rs 387. Grasim gained 1% at Rs 3,341. 

Value & volume toppers

Reliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 494 crore followed by HDFC (Rs 414 crore), Reliance Natural Resources (Rs 389 crore), Reliance Energy (Rs 320.50 crore) and ICICI Bank (Rs 221.40 crore).

Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 1.83 crore shares followed by Himachal Futuristic (1.78 crore), Bellary Steel (1.28 crore), Ispat Industries (1.25 crore) and Reliance Petroleum (1 crore).