For the second consecutive day, the index eventually pared gains and settled with a marginally higher (44 points) at 15,117.

The market breadth was marginally positive - out of 2,785 stocks traded, 1,412 moved up, 1,280 declined and 93 were unchanged today.

The NSE Nifty moved up six points to end at 4,524.

INDEX MOVERS...

Sterlite soared 4.4% to Rs 614. Tata Motors [Get Quote] surged over 4% to Rs 444.

HDFC [Get Quote] rallied 3.4% to Rs 2,477, and HDFC Bank added 3% to Rs 1,254.

Grasim [Get Quote], Mahindra & Mahindra and Maruti [Get Quote] gained 2.5% each at Rs 2,089, Rs 576 and Rs 669, respectively.

Satyam [Get Quote] moved up 2.3% to Rs 417. DLF and NTPC advanced 1.8% each to Rs 555 and Rs 183, respectively.

Infosys [Get Quote], Reliance Infrastructure and Jaiprakash Associates [Get Quote] were up over 1% each at Rs 1,721, Rs 1,024 and Rs 187, respectively.

...AND THE SHAKERS

BHEL dropped nearly 3% to Rs 1,775. Bharti Airtel [Get Quote] shed 2.3% at Rs 850.

Reliance Communications [Get Quote] and Ranbaxy [Get Quote] slipped 1.7% each to Rs 439 and Rs 504, respectively.

Hindustan Unilever declined 1.5% to Rs 242. Wipro [Get Quote], Tata Power [Get Quote] and Reliance were down over 1% each at Rs 449, Rs 1,050 and Rs 2,271, respectively.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Reliance Capital [Get Quote] topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 342.50 crore followed by Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (Rs 296 crore), Reliance (Rs 235.80 crore), SEL Manufacturing (Rs 228 crore) and ONGC [Get Quote] (Rs 137.80 crore).

Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 2.92 crore shares followed by Ispat Industries [Get Quote] (1.41 crore), Tata Teleservices [Get Quote] (1.19 crore), Kashyap Technologies (88.30 lakh) and Chambal Fertilisers (86 lakh).