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Sensex ends up 356 points, Tata Steel soars 9% March 28, 2008 16:58 IST Fresh buying in noon trades helped the index rebound into the positive zone. Aggressive buying in select index heavyweights saw the index rally to a high of 16,338 - up 454 points from the day's low. The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 356 points (2.2%) at 16,371. The BSE Small-cap index soared 5% (375 points) to 7,902, and the Mid-cap index surged 4% (247 points) to 6,523. The market breadth was extremely positive - out of 2,741 35 stocks traded, 2,330 advanced, 373 declined and 38 were unchanged on Friday. The NSE Nifty moved up 112 points (2.3%) to end at 4,942. Index movers Tata Steel [Get Quote] soared 9.5% to Rs 717. Larsen & Toubro zoomed over 6% to Rs 3,147. Infosys [Get Quote] surged 6% to Rs 1,526. Wipro [Get Quote] rallied 5.5% to Rs 454. Satyam [Get Quote] gained 3.4% at Rs 408, and TCS [Get Quote] added 2% to Rs 870. BHEL moved up 5.4% to Rs 2,092. Jaiprakash Associates [Get Quote] and NTPC rallied nearly 4% each to Rs 240 and Rs 204, respectively. Reliance Energy [Get Quote] added 3.7% to Rs 1,334. DLF, Reliance and ITC advanced over 3% each to Rs 696, Rs 2,348 and Rs 206, respectively. Cipla gained nearly 3% at Rs 218. ACC was up 2% at Rs 835. And the shakers HDFC Bank [Get Quote] slipped 2.3% to Rs 1,401. HDFC dropped nearly 2% to Rs 2,613. ONGC [Get Quote] and Tata Motors [Get Quote] slipped around 1.5% each to Rs 1,052 and Rs 646, respectively. Most active counters Reliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 356.40 crore followed by Reliance Capital [Get Quote] (Rs 263.60 crore), HDFC (Rs 236 crore), Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (Rs 160.50 crore) and SAIL [Get Quote] (Rs 159.25 crore). Powered by  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
