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Sensex ends down 687 points, Ranbaxy gains 5%
 
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January 18, 2008 16:31 IST

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. 

Big falls...

Date

Close

Prv Cls

Chg

% Chg

18-May-06

11391.43

12217.81

-826.38

-6.76

17-Dec-07

19261.35

20030.83

-769.48

-3.84

18-Oct-07

17998.39

18715.80

-717.43

-3.83

18-Jan-08

18995.06

19700.80

-705.76

-3.58

21-Nov-07

18602.62

19280.80

-678.18

-3.52

16-Aug-07

14358.21

15000.91

-642.70

-4.28

02-Apr-06

12455.37

13072.10

-616.73

-4.72

01-Aug-07

14935.77

15550.99

-615.22

-3.96

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 [Get Quote] shed 5.8% at Rs 1,245, and HDFC Bank [Get Quote] dropped 4.3% to Rs 1,576.

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

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

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

Cipla and Hindalco [Get Quote] also shed 3% each at Rs 202 and Rs 185, respectively.

SBI [Get Quote] and BHEL declined 2% each to Rs 2,368 and Rs 2,302, respectively.

TCS [Get Quote] and ITC also dropped 2% each at Rs 904 and Rs 213, respectively.

...and the movers

Ranbaxy [Get Quote] soared 5% to Rs 387. Grasim [Get Quote] gained 1% at Rs 3,341. 

Major gainers

Major Losers

Name

Close

% Chg

Name

Close

% Chg

Ras Resr

55.40

19.9

Bajaj Hind

275.10

20.5

Hydro S

71.20

17.3

Tele Data

51.75

20.0

Pratibha

408.20

11.0

Silverline

93.95

15.2

Morgan Cr

110.00

10.0

Media Video [Get Quote]

48.00

14.4

Ceekay Daikan

138.85

10.0

Chambal Fertilisers

66.55

14.3

(Close = Stock pirce at the end of day in Rs)

Value & volume toppers

Reliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 494 crore followed by HDFC (Rs 414 crore), Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (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 [Get Quote] (1.25 crore) and Reliance Petroleum [Get Quote] (1 crore).


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