The Sensex opened 37 points higher at 9,746, but soon slipped into red to a low of 9,546 - down 200 points from the day's open. However, steady buying in realty, IT and energy stocks helped the index rebound into the positive zone.

The heavyweights - Reliance, Infosys [Get Quote], HDFC [Get Quote], ONGC [Get Quote] and ICICI Bank [Get Quote] - aided Wednesday's upmove. The index rallied to a high of 9,922 - up 376 points from the day's low. The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 193 points at 9,902.

The NSE Nifty ended at 3,060, up 39 points.

The BSE Realty index surged 5.4% to 1,645. The IT and Oil & Gas indexes rallied around 3% each to Rs 2,358 and 7,256, respectively.

The market breadth was extremely positive - out of 2,463 stocks traded, 1,822 advanced, 559 declined and the rest were unchanged on Wednesday.

INDEX MOVERS. . .

Ranbaxy [Get Quote] zoomed 7.7% to Rs 178. HDFC and Reliance Infrastructrue soared 6.7% each to Rs 1,506 and Rs 550, respectively.

DLF surged 5.7% to Rs 177. ICICI Bank rallied 5% to Rs 349.

Infosys, Tata Power [Get Quote] and Reliance moved up nearly 4% each to Rs 1,375, Rs 795 and Rs 1,579, respectively.

ONGC, Reliance Communications [Get Quote], HDFC Bank and Mahindra & Mahindra gained 3% each at Rs 804, Rs 180, Rs 997 and Rs 395, respectively.

Wipro [Get Quote] and Maruti [Get Quote] advanced 2.5% each to Rs 252 and Rs 794, respectively.

Tata Steel [Get Quote] and ACC were up nearly 2% each at Rs 210 and Rs 587, respectively.

...AND THE SHAKERS

Sun Pharma [Get Quote] slumped over 4% to Rs 1,065.

BHEL and Grasim [Get Quote] plunged around 2% each to Rs 1,472 and Rs 1,545, respectively.

Bharti Airtel [Get Quote] shed 1.7% at Rs 615. Sterlite and NTPC declined around 1% each to Rs 351 and Rs 178, respectively.

OTHER PROMINENT GAINERS...

Opto Circuits zoomed over 15% to Rs 116. Godrej Industries [Get Quote], BEML, Suzlon [Get Quote], HDIL, IRB Infrastructure, Uco Bank [Get Quote], Reliance Capital [Get Quote], JSW Steel [Get Quote], Unitech, Voltas [Get Quote], United Phosphorous and Sintex rallied 7-13% each.

...AND THE LOSERS

Bhushan Steel [Get Quote] shed 6.5% at Rs 373. Lupin, Siemens, Power Grid, Jindal Steel, Apollo Hospital, BPCL [Get Quote], UltraTech Cemco, Godrej Consumer, Hero Honda, M&M Financial, Colgate, HPCL [Get Quote], GlaxoSmithKline [Get Quote] Consumer, Madras Cement and Cummins declined 2-4% each.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Reliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 282.18 crore followed by Reliance Capital (Rs 246.43 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 227.63 crore), Reliance Infrastructure (Rs 174.75 crore) and SBI [Get Quote] (Rs 134.89 crore).

Unitech led the volume chart with trades of arounde 1.76 crore shares followed by Suzlon (1.66 crore), Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (1.26 crore), Cals Refineries (1.13 crore) and IFCI (99.19 lakh).