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The Sensex opened with a bang above the 20,000-mark at 20,018 - up 280 points - on the back of positive cues from the overseas markets. The index soon touched a high of 20,064.
Profit-taking at higher levels saw the index pare gains in noon deals. A fresh round of selling in closing trades saw the index slip to a low of 19,717 - down 347 points from the day's high.
The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 58 points at 19,796. The Nifty gained 15 points to close at 5,955.
The NSE Nifty touched a new all-time intra-day high of 6,027, and finally ended with a gain of 15 points at record 5,955.
The realty index zoomed 4.8% to 11,475. The Bankex and the IT index were up 1% each at 11,128 and 4271, respectively.
The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,882 stocks traded, 1,737 advanced, 1,102 declined and 43 were unchanged today.
INDEX MOVERS...
Cipla zoomed nearly 5% to Rs 199. ICICI Bank [Get Quote] and Reliance Energy [Get Quote] gained over 3% each to Rs 1,199 and Rs 1,946, respectively.
HDFC [Get Quote] moved up 2.6% to Rs 2,813. Bharti Airtel [Get Quote] advanced 2.3% to Rs 940, and Infosys [Get Quote] rallied 2% to Rs 1,635.
DLF was up 1.7% at Rs 971. Mahindra & Mahindra and Ranbaxy [Get Quote] were the other major gainers at Rs 785 and Rs 398, respectively.
...AND THE SHAKERS
Hindalco [Get Quote] and Grasim [Get Quote] dropped 3% each to Rs 193 and Rs 3,680, respectively.
Bajaj Auto [Get Quote] and HDFC Bank shed 2.5% each at Rs 2,728 and Rs 1,686, respectively.
Tata Steel [Get Quote] slipped over 2% to Rs 847. BHEL declined 1.3% to Rs 2,785.
ONGC [Get Quote] and Wipro [Get Quote] were down over 1% each at Rs 1,192 and Rs 493, respectively.
Major Gainers | Major Losers | ||||
Name | Close | % Chg | Name | Close | % Chg |
Silverline | 160.10 | 1138.2 | Media Video [Get Quote] | 53.05 | 19.9 |
Essar Steel [Get Quote] | 71.10 | 20.0 | Anil SP | 21.70 | 19.6 |
Asso Stone | 66.00 | 20.0 | Lippi Sys | 6.30 | 16.0 |
Winsome Yrn | 19.50 | 20.0 | APM Inds | 25.50 | 13.6 |
Refino Res | 15.72 | 20.0 | Garg Furn | 31.25 | 12.0 |
(Close = Stock pirce at the end of day in Rs) | |||||
VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS
Reliance Petroleum [Get Quote] topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 498 crore followed by Ispat Industries [Get Quote] (Rs 416 crore), Reliance Energy (Rs 307 crore), Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (252 crore) and Unitech (Rs 184 crore).
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