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The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 83 points at 14,726, and slipped to a low of 14,677 in early deals.
Buying at lower levels helped the index rebound into positive zone, and the index touched a high of 15,170 - up 493 points from the day's low - in mid-noon trades. The index, thereafter, pared gains and slipped into red in late trades. The Sensex finally settled at 14,833 - up 24 points.
Thus, the index shed 11% (1,844 points) in the last ten trading days during the 'sun outage' - from March 4 till Tuesday.
The NSE Nifty ended with a gain of 30 points at 4,533.
The BSE market breadth was fairly negative - out of 2,734 stocks traded, 1,920 declined, 747 advanced and 67 were unchanged on Tuesday.
Index movers
DLF gained over 5% to Rs 635. Hindustan Unilever advanced nearly 4% to Rs 231, and Ranbaxy [Get Quote] added 3.5% at Rs 453.
TCS [Get Quote], Reliance Energy [Get Quote] and Reliance Communications [Get Quote] rallied over 3% each to Rs 817, Rs 1,228 and Rs 497, respectively.
Larsen & Toubro moved up 2.3% to Rs 2,764. Tata Motors [Get Quote], Bharti Airtel [Get Quote] and Cipla advanced over 2% each to Rs 619, Rs 758 and Rs 204, respectively.
BHEL and ICICI Bank [Get Quote] were up around 1.5% each at Rs 1,824 and Rs 768, respectively.
And shakers
Jaiprakash Associates [Get Quote] plunged 3.5% to Rs 201. Tata Steel [Get Quote] dropped 3% to Rs 639, and SBI [Get Quote] slipped 2.5% to Rs 1,592.
Infosys [Get Quote], Reliance and ACC declined around 1.7% each to Rs 1,313, Rs 2,145 and Rs 759, respectively.
Grasim [Get Quote] and ITC were down around 1.5% each at Rs 2,631 and Rs 183, respectively.
Major Gainers | Major Losers | ||||
Name | Close | % Chg | Name | Close | % Chg |
Vishal Cotspin | 10.0 | 42.9 | Shalimar Paints [Get Quote] | 237.65 | -20.0 |
Kansai Nero | 620.80 | 17.4 | Amarjothi Spinning | 14.85 | -19.7 |
Oricon Enterprises [Get Quote] | 69.60 | 16.0 | Camson Bio | 73.05 | 19.7 |
GSS America | 676.30 | 12.9 | Indus Fila [Get Quote] | 119.00 | 18.8 |
Vippy Spinpro [Get Quote] | 7.95 | 12.6 | Solar Explosives [Get Quote] | 323.95 | 16.6 |
(Close = Stock pirce at the end of day in Rs) |
Value and volume toppers
Jaiprakash Associates topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 526.30 crore followed by Reliance Petroleum [Get Quote] (Rs 310.20 crore), Reliance Capital [Get Quote] (Rs 297 crore), Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (284 crore) and GSS America (Rs 274.30 crore).
Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 2.78 crore shares followed by Jaiprakash Associates (2.55 crore), Reliance Petroleum (2.01 crore), Orchid Chemicals (1.13 crore) and GVK Power (1.09 crore).
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