The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 262 points at 15,430 on the back of positive cues from the global markets. The index, thereafter, displayed firm trend throughout the day on the back of smart gains in banking, realty and oil & gas stocks.

The index touched a high of 15,521, and finally settled with a gain of 336 points at 15,504.

The BSE Realty index surged 5.3% to 5,799. The Bankex advanced over 4% to 7,702, and the Oil & Gas index surged 3% to 10,437.

The market breadth was fairly bullish - out of 2,776 stocks traded, 1,736 moved up, 971 declined and the rest were unchanged on Monday.

The NSE Nifty moved up 91 points to end at 4,620.

INDEX MOVERS

Jaiprakash Associates [Get Quote] soared 7.7% to Rs 198. Reliance Infrastructure surged 6.7% to Rs 1,102. DLF added 3.5% to Rs 568.

ICICI Bank [Get Quote] rallied 5.7% to Rs 771. SBI [Get Quote] moved up 4.7% to Rs 1,593. HDFC [Get Quote] and HDFC Bank added 2.2% each to Rs 2,570 and Rs 1,309, respectively.

Maruti [Get Quote] surged over 5% to Rs 716. ONGC [Get Quote] and Reliance Communications [Get Quote] gained 3.7% each at Rs 1,103 and Rs 454, respectively.
 
Reliance advanced 3.3% to Rs 2,326. Mahindra & Mahindra added 2.8% to Rs 590, and BHEL was up 2.5% at Rs 1,827.

...AND THE SHAKERS

Sterlite slipped over 2% to Rs 625. TCS [Get Quote] and Tata Steel [Get Quote] were down 1% each at Rs 834 and Rs 645, respectively.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Reliance Communications topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 239.50 crore followed by Reliance (Rs 232.50 crore), Reliance Capital [Get Quote] (Rs 220.70 crore), debutant Vishal Info (Rs 216.25 crore) and Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (Rs 181.20 crore).

Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 1.73 crore shares followed by Vishal Info (1.17 crore), Kashyap Technologies (1.05 crore), IFCI (99 lakh) and Cals (73 lakh).