The Sensex almost flat at 10,102 - up two points - and thereafter displayed lacklustre movement in morning trades. During which, the index touched a high of 10,173. Selling pressure in noon trades saw the index slip deeper into red.

The index dropped to a low of 9,894 - down 279 points from the day's high. The Sensex finally ended with a loss of 172 points at 9,928.

The NSE Nifty ended at 3,039, down 39 points.

The BSE Oil & Gas index shed 3% at 6,249, and the Bankex dropped 2.5% to 5,492. The Auto and Metal indices slipped around 1.5% each to 2,527 and 5,352, respectively.

The market breadth was marginally positive - out of 2,616 stocks traded, 1,275 advanced, 1,258 declined and the rest were unchanged on Monday.

INDEX SHAKERS...

ICICI Bank [Get Quote] slumped 5.5% to Rs 446. Reliance and Mahindra & Mahindra plunged over 4.5% each to Rs 1,285 and Rs 307, respectively.

Maruti [Get Quote] tumbled 3.8% to Rs 529. HDFC Bank [Get Quote] shed 3% at Rs 1,020.

Reliance Infrastructure slipped nearly 3% to Rs 601. BHEL dropped 2.5% to Rs 1,403.

Jaiprakash Associates [Get Quote] declined 2% to Rs 87. HDFC, ACC and Tata Steel [Get Quote] were down 1.7% each to Rs 1,494, Rs 488 and Rs 225, respectively.

...AND THE MOVERS

Tata Motors [Get Quote] rallied nearly 5% to Rs 188.

DLF surged 2.7% to Rs 316. Ranbaxy [Get Quote] gained 2% at Rs 222.

MOST ACTIVE COUNTERS

Reliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 254.50 crore followed by DLF (Rs 217.60 crore), Reliance Capital [Get Quote] (Rs 213 crore), HDIL (Rs 212.50 crore) and Unitech (Rs 158.50 crore).

Unitech led the volume chart with trades of around 3.30 crore shares followed by Suzlon [Get Quote] (2.54 crore), Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (2.31 crore), HDIL (1.28 crore) and Reliance Petroleum [Get Quote] (1.25 crore).