Sensex ends up 216 points; RNRL zooms 35%

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Sensex ends up 216 points; RNRL zooms 35%

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September 21, 2007 16:48 IST
After starting the day on a quite note, the Sensex swung in and out of the positive zone in morning trades before surging to new highs. The index opened a tad (four points) higher at 16,352, slipped to a low of 16,308, but rebounded later on the back of fresh buying in select heavyweights.

The buying gained momentum in late noon trades and the index rallied to a fresh all-time intra-day high of 16,617 - up 308 points from the day's low.

The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 216 points at 16,564. The NSE Nifty ended at 4,838, up 90 points.

The BSE Oil & Gas index soared 3.5% to 9340. The Realty index surged 1.5% to 9183, and the Auto index gained 1% at 5193.

The market breadth was negative - out of 2,843 stocks traded, 1,629 declined, 1,166 advanced and 48 were unchanged on Friday.

Index Movers...

Reliance zoomed 3.8% (Rs 82) to Rs 2,274. Bharti Airtel [Get Quote] soared 3% to Rs 918, and SBI [Get Quote] surged 2.8% to Rs 1,808.

Reliance Communications [Get Quote], Reliance Energy [Get Quote], Grasim [Get Quote], Hindustan Unilever, Maruti [Get Quote] and ONGC [Get Quote] rallied 2% each to Rs 579, Rs 1,010, Rs 3,447, Rs 219, Rs 930 and Rs 923, respectively.

Wipro [Get Quote], TCS [Get Quote] and HDFC [Get Quote] advanced nearly 1.5% each to Rs 440, Rs 1,015 and Rs 2,372, respectively.

Larsen & Toubro, Tata Motors [Get Quote], Infosys [Get Quote] and BHEL were up over 1% each at Rs 2,783, Rs 741, Rs 1,822 and Rs 1,966, respectively.

Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (RNRL) zoomed 35% (Rs 20) to Rs 77 amid reports that the company has seeked permission to start gas distribution service in Mumbai & Delhi.

...And The Shakers

ITC shed 1.6% to Rs 191, and Hindalco [Get Quote] slipped 1.4% to Rs 160.

Cipla and NTPC were the other prominent losers at Rs 167 and Rs 187, respectively.

Value & Volume Toppers

Ambuja Cements topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 1,081 crore followed by Reliance Natural Resources (Rs 673.50 crore), Reliance Petro (Rs 437.50 crore), Reliance (Rs 194.50 crore) and IFCI (Rs 170 crore).


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