Sensex ends 271 points down at 20,104

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Sensex ends 271 points down at 20,104

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December 13, 2007 16:21 IST
The Sensex opened with a huge positive gap of 122 points at 20,498, which turned out to be the high for the day.

A heavy bout of selling towards the close saw the index tumble to a low of 20,066 - an intra-day swing of 432 points.

The Sensex finally closed with a huge loss of 271 points (1.3%) at 20,104. The Nifty lost 101 points to close at 6,058.

The BSE FMCG index gained nearly 2% (42 points) at 2232. The BSE Midcap and SmallCap indices also finished with gains at 9376 and 12,007, respectively.

The market breadth was positive - out of 2,928 scrips traded today, 1,843 logged gains and 1,059 declined.

Index Losers...

Bharti dropped over 6% (Rs 66) to Rs 988. ICICI Bank [Get Quote] declined nearly 4% (Rs 48) to Rs 1,242.

Maruti [Get Quote] slipped 3.5% (Rs 37) to Rs 1,038. Reliance [Get Quote] was down nearly 2% (Rs 54) at Rs 2,833.

ONGC [Get Quote], Satyam [Get Quote], NTPC and BHEL also finished on a weak note today.

...And Gainers

ITC closed with a gain of over 4% at Rs 197. Tata Steel [Get Quote] moved up 3% to Rs 889.

Cipla, Hindalco [Get Quote], Bajaj and HDFC [Get Quote] also closed with gains today.

Kolte Patil ends day one with 25% gain

Kolte Patil was listed at a premium of 52% at Rs 220 as against the IPO price of Rs 145. The stock hit a high of 224 and low of Rs 175 before closing with a gain of 25% (Rs 36) at Rs 181.

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