After opening with a positive gap of 105 points at 19,708, the Sensex pared gains in early trades, and exhibited lacklustre movement for the major part of the day today.

A fresh round of selling in late noon trades saw the index slip to a low of 19,482 - down 226 points from the day's open. The Sensex finally ended with a loss of 74 points at 19,530.

The Nifty ends down 7 points at 5,858.

The BSE Mid-cap and Small-cap indices moved up 1.6% each to 8905 and 10,957, respectively.

The Consumer Durables index soared over 6% to 6083. The Metal index surged over 3% to 18,869, and the Auto index gained 1.7% at 5639.

The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,864 stocks traded, 1,931 advanced, 880 declined and 53 were unchanged today.

INDEX SHAKERS...

Reliance [Get Quote] shed 2.3% to Rs 2,864. TCS [Get Quote] and ICICI Bank [Get Quote] slipped over 2% each to Rs 1,030 and Rs 1,140, respectively.

Satyam [Get Quote] dropped 1.6% to Rs 441. ONGC [Get Quote] and Ranbaxy [Get Quote] were down over 1% each at Rs 1,157 and Rs 388, respectively.

...AND THE MOVERS

Tata Steel [Get Quote] soared over 4% to Rs 873. Mahindra & Mahindra  rallied 2.8% to Rs 772.

BHEL surged 2% to Rs 2,815. Ambuja Cements and Larsen & Toubro gained over 1% each at Rs 154 and Rs 4,229, respectively.
 

Major Gainers			Major Losers
Name	Close	% Chg	Name	Close	% Chg
Wire & Wireless	86.10	22.7	Media Video [Get Quote]	53.05	19.9
Zodiac JRDMK	39.30	20.0	Anil SP	21.70	19.6
Arrow Coat	42.00	20.0	Lippi Sys	6.30	16.0
Intl Hometex	13.08	20.0	Apm Inds	25.50	13.6
Freshtrop	143.70	20.0	Garg Furn	31.25	12.0
(Close = Stock pirce at the end of day in Rs)

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Jindal Steel topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 471 crore followed by Essar Oil [Get Quote] (Rs 453.50 crore), Mundra Port (Rs 332 crore), ONGC (Rs 242.70 crore) and IFCI (Rs 200 crore).

Ispat Industries [Get Quote] led the volume chart with trades of around 2.48 crore shares followed by Ashok Leyland [Get Quote] (1.99 crore), IFCI (1.88 crore), Chambal Fertilisers (1.70 crore) and Tata Teleservices [Get Quote] (1.69 crore).