The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 65 points at 14,360. Steady buying in auto, banking and capital goods stocks saw the index trade with a positive bias. The index rallied to a high of 14,449, and finally settled with a gain of 116 points at 14,412.

The BSE Auto and Bankex rallied 1.4% each to 4762 and 7790, respectively. The Metal index gained 1% at 10,725.

The market breadth was positive - out of 2,635 stocks traded, 1,447 advanced, 1,100 declined and 88 unchanged.

INDEX MOVERS & SHAKERS

SBI [Get Quote] zoomed nearly 4% to Rs 1,425. HDFC [Get Quote] gained 2% to Rs 1,812.

Gujarat Ambuja [Get Quote] soared 4.6% to Rs 118. Grasim [Get Quote] surged 3% to Rs 2,513.

Tata Motors [Get Quote] rallied 3.5% to Rs 686. Maruti [Get Quote] advanced nearly 3% to Rs 773, and Bajaj Auto [Get Quote] added 2% to Rs 2,162.

BHEL and Larsen & Toubro moved up around 1.7% each to Rs 1,430 and Rs 2,028, respectively.

Bharti Airtel [Get Quote] gained 1.5% at Rs 825. Cipla and ITC added 1.3% each to Rs 210 and Rs 155, respectively. Dr.Reddy's was up 1% at Rs 642.

Ranbaxy [Get Quote] tumbled 2% to Rs 352, and TCS [Get Quote] dropped 1.3% to Rs 1,146.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Divi's Lab topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 165 crore followed by Reliance Capital [Get Quote] (Rs 155 crore), Educomp Solutions [Get Quote] (Rs 136.30 crore), India Infoline [Get Quote] (Rs 120.70 crore) and SBI (Rs 107 crore).

Voltas [Get Quote] led the volume chart with trades of around 76.20 lakh shares followed by G V Films [Get Quote] (75.20 lakh), Reliance Natural [Get Quote] (73 lakh), IKF Technologies [Get Quote] (63 lakh) and IFCI (57.25 lakh).

The NSE Nifty ended up 35 points at 4,249.