The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 50 points at 15,067. After touching a high of 15,070, the index slipped marginally and displayed lacklustre movement for the major part of the trading session today.

The index dropped to a low of 14,965 - down 105 points from the day's high. The index, however, pulled back and ended with a marginal loss of 16 points at 15,001.

The BSE Realty index was up over 1% at 7391.

The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,764 stocks traded, 1,573 advanced, 1,104 declined and 87 were unchanged today.

INDEX MOVERS...

NTPC surged 3% to Rs 173.

ONGC [Get Quote] and HDFC Bank [Get Quote] gained over 1% each at Rs 854 and Rs 1,150, respectively. Hindalco [Get Quote] also advanced 1% to Rs 154.

...AND THE SHAKERS

ACC, HDFC and Grasim [Get Quote] dropped around 2% each to Rs 990, Rs 1,941 and Rs 2,879, respectively.

Hindustan Unilever and Mahindra & Mahindra declined around 1.7% each to Rs 200 and Rs 679, respectively.

BHEL slipped over 1% to Rs 1,687. Maruti [Get Quote], Reliance Communications [Get Quote] and Larsen & Toubro were the other prominent losers today.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Everonn Systems topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 381 crore followed by debutant Omnitech (150.50 crore), Orbit Corporation [Get Quote] (Rs 138.80 crore), SBI [Get Quote] (Rs 97.90 crore) and IDBI (Rs 96.90 crore).

Nagarjuna Fertilisers led the volume chart with trades of around 1.93 crore shares followed by IKF Technologies [Get Quote] (1.57 crore), IFCI (1.25 crore), Reliance Natural [Get Quote] (1.03 crore) and Omnitech (90 lakh).