Fresh selling at higher levels saw the index drop to 19,723 - down 244 points from the day's high. The index, thereafter, exhibited range-bound movement, and finally settled with a loss of 144 points at 19,785.
The Nifty lost 26 points to close at 5,912.
While the Small-cap index gained nearly 2% to 10,481, the Mid-cap index moved up 1.5% to 8414.
The market breadth was positive - out of 2,849 stocks traded, 1,808 advanced, 988 declined and 53 were unchanged today.
INDEX SHAKERS...
Reliance Energy plunged 3.5% to Rs 1,854.
Wipro and Infosys dropped 3% each to Rs 456, Rs 1,653, respectively.
HDFC Bank and NTPC also declined 3% each to Rs 1,696 and Rs 269, respectively.
ICICI Bank slipped over 2% to Rs 1,249. BHEL and SBI dropped 1.7% each to Rs 2,823 and Rs 2,308, respectively.
...AND THE MOVERS
Bharti Airtel zoomed 4.7% to Rs 900, and ITC surged 3.5% to Rs 190.
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Major Gainers |
Major Losers | ||||
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Name |
Close |
% Chg |
Name |
Close |
% Chg |
|
Essar Oil |
157.65 |
30.5 |
Axon Infotech |
166.90 |
70.0 |
|
Bongaigaon Refinery |
104.95 |
30.1 |
Harita Seat |
143.70 |
47.5 |
|
MRPL |
127.95 |
22.1 |
IFL Promoter |
20.25 |
13.5 |
|
Manali Petro |
21.42 |
20.0 |
Madan Fin |
7.00 |
12.5 |
|
NRC |
29.10 |
20.0 |
Balrampur Chini |
84.90 |
11.5 |
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(Close = Stock pirce at the end of day in Rs) | |||||
VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS
Reliance Petroleum topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 423 crore followed by Reliance Energy (Rs 375 crore), HDFC (Rs 305 crore), GMR Infrastructure (Rs 266 crore) and Essar Oil (Rs 258.60 crore).
Ispat Industries led the volume chart with trades of around 3.79 crore followed by IFCI (2.12 crore), Reliance Petroleum (1.96 crore), MRPL (1.85 crore) and Essar Oil (1.73 crore).
