The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 69 points at 16,969, and soon crossed the 17,000-mark in opening trades. Renewed buying in technology stocks helped the index rally to a fresh all-time intra-day high of 17,074.

Some profit taking towards the end, saw the index slip into red to 16,887 - down 187 points from the day's high. The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 22 points at 16,921.

The Nifty ended at 4,941, up 2 points.

The market breadth was positive - out of 2,815 stocks traded, 1,492 advanced, 1,262 declined and 61 were unchanged today.

Index Movers...

Satyam [Get Quote] zoomed 4.8% to Rs 431. Wipro [Get Quote] soared 4.3% to Rs 455. TCS [Get Quote] surged nearly 4% to Rs 1,041, and Infosys [Get Quote] added 3% to Rs 1,824.

HDFC [Get Quote] rallied 3.5% to Rs 2,477. ICICI Bank [Get Quote] advanced 3% to Rs 1,019, and SBI [Get Quote] gained 2.5% at Rs 1,848.

Tata Steel [Get Quote] and Cipla were the other major gainers.

...And The Shakers

Reliance Energy [Get Quote] plunged 5.6% to Rs 1,026. Reliance and Maruti [Get Quote] tumbled around 3% each to Rs 2,322 and Rs 962, respectively.

NTPC shed 2% at Rs 192. HDFC Bank, Mahindra & Mahindra and Hindalco [Get Quote] slipped around 1.5% each to Rs 1,375, Rs 752 and Rs 165, respectively.

ITC was down over 1% at Rs 185.

Value & Volume Toppers

Praj Industries [Get Quote] topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 387.25 crore followed by Reliance (Rs 274.50 crore), Tata Tele (Rs 233.30 crore), Indiabulls Real Estate [Get Quote] (Rs 229 crore) and Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (Rs 214 crore).

Tata Tele led the volume chart with trades of around 5.32 crore shares followed by Himachal Futuristic (3.42 crore), Ispat Industries [Get Quote] (2.38 crore), Reliance Natural Resources (2.29 crore) and MRPL (2.14 crore).

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