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Mirroring the weak trend in the global markets following the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the Sensex opened with a negative gap of 59 points at 20,158.
Fresh buying at lower levels saw the index move into positive zone and touch a high of 20,259. The index, thereafter, exhibited lacklustre movement for the major part of the day before slipping to a low of 20,023 - down 236 points from the day's high.
Late buying saw the index move up, once again, into positive zone and finally ended with a marginal loss of 10 points at 20,207. The Nifty closed at 6,080, down 2 points.
The BSE Midcap Index rallied over 1.5% (146 points) to 9575, and the Smallcap Index surged over 2% (273 points) to 11,069.
The Realty Index soared nearly 4% to 12,551, and the Metal Index gained 2.5% at 19,948.
The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,953 stocks traded, 2,266 advanced, 656 declined and 31 were unchanged today.
Index Movers...
DFL zoomed over 5% to Rs 1,064.
Tata Steel [Get Quote] and Ambuja Cements surged 2.8% each to Rs 931 and Rs 149, respectively.
Grasim [Get Quote], Hindalco [Get Quote] and ITC advanced over 1% each to Rs 3,630, Rs 213 and Rs 206, respectively.
Ranbaxy [Get Quote], Reliance Energy [Get Quote] and BHEL were also up 1% each at Rs 416, Rs 2,155 and Rs 2,582, respectively.
...And The Shakers
Wipro [Get Quote] plunged 3.5% to Rs 530.
Bharti Airtel [Get Quote] dropped 2.7% to Rs 941, and Bajaj Auto [Get Quote] dropped over 2% to Rs 2,611.
TCS [Get Quote] slipped 1.8% to Rs 1,080.
Major Gainers | Major Losers | ||||
Name | Close | % Chg | Name | Close | % Chg |
Best Hotel | 105.30 | 20.0 | Mukand CRPS | 26.62 | 20.0 |
Satnam Overseas | 102.00 | 20.0 | Bajaj Auto Fin | 99.00 | 16.1 |
Cosmo Ferr | 24.00 | 20.0 | Camlin | 69.00 | 7.3 |
Metro Inds | 82.20 | 20.0 | Eurote Ind | 55.00 | 7.0 |
Nikhil Adhesis | 37.80 | 20.0 | Alk Securit | 55.00 | 7.0 |
(Close = Stock pirce at the end of day in Rs) | |||||
Value & Volume Toppers
Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 261.50 crore followed by Reliance Energy (Rs 218 crore), debutant Transformers & Rectifiers (India) (Rs 194 crore), SpiceJet (Rs 179.50 crore) and Essar Oil [Get Quote] (Rs 171.20 crore).
SpiceJet led the volume chart with trades of around 2.19 crore shares followed by IKF Technologies [Get Quote] (1.84 crore), Himachal Futuristic (1.70 crore), Reliance Natural Resources (1.49 crore) and G V Films [Get Quote] (1.43 crore).
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