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Sensex ends up 133 points at 15,074
 
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August 06, 2008 16:52 IST
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 303 points to 15,264 on the back of positive cues from the global markets. Fresh buying, thereafter, saw the index rally to a high of 15,423 - up 462 points from the previous close.

The markets displayed strength for most part of the trading day. However, aggressive profit-taking in the last one-hour of trades saw the index pare gains and drop to a low of 15,036. The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 113 points at 15,074.

The market breadth turned negative towards the close - out of 2,786 stocks traded, 1,446 declined, 1,265 advanced and the rest were unchanged today.

The NSE Nifty touched a high of 4,616 - up 113 points - in morning trades, but eventually finished with a marginal gain of 15 points at 4,518.

INDEX MOVERS...

Maruti [Get Quote] zoomed over 6% to Rs 653. Tata Motors [Get Quote] soared 4.3% to Rs 427.

Bharti Airtel [Get Quote] and ACC surged 3.5% each to Rs 870 and Rs 638, respectively.

TCS [Get Quote] and BHEL rallied over 3% each to Rs 858 and Rs 1,827, respectively.

HDFC Bank [Get Quote] advanced 2.7% to Rs 1,217. Mahindra & Mahindra, Larsen & Toubro and Hindustan Unilever gained around 2.5% each at Rs 562, Rs 2,764 and Rs 246, respectively.

ICICI Bank [Get Quote] and Satyam [Get Quote] added 2% each to Rs 707 and Rs 407, respectively.

ONGC [Get Quote], Wipro [Get Quote] and Infosys [Get Quote] were up 1.3% each at Rs 1,016, Rs 453 and Rs 1,699, respectively.

...AND THE SHAKERS

Tata Steel [Get Quote] plunged 4.5% to Rs 646. Tata Power [Get Quote] and SBI [Get Quote] tumbled around 3.5% each to Rs 1,061 and Rs 1,524, respectively.

Reliance Infrastructure slipped over 3% to Rs 1,011, while HDFC shed 2.8% at Rs 2,396.

DLF dropped 1.5% to Rs 545. NTPC was down 1% at Rs 180.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 374 crore followed by Reliance Capital [Get Quote] (Rs 353 crore), Reliance (Rs 327 crore), Larsen & Toubro (Rs 289.50 crore) and ICICI Bank (Rs 206.35 crore).

Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 3.60 crore shares followed by Ispat Industries [Get Quote] (1.42 crore), Kashyap Technologies (1.28 crore), IFCI (1.10 crore) and IDFC [Get Quote] (87.80 lakh).


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