Mirroring weak trend in the global markets, the Sensex opened with a negative gap of 182 points at 15,030, and soon touched a low of 15,013. Fresh buying at lower levels helped the index recoup.

The index and rebound into the positive zone to a high of 15,273 - up 243 points from the day's low.However, the index could not hold gains, and finally ended with a loss of 119 points at 15,093.

The BSE Bankex dropped 2.2% to 7,271, and the Reatly index slipped 1.3% to 5,611. On the other hand, the BSE IT and Healthcare indices moved up over 1% each to 3,814 and 4,280, respectively.

The market breadth was marginally negative - out of 2,749 stocks traded, 1,420 declined, 1,238 advanced and 91 were unchanged on Wednesday.

The NSE Nifty was down 23 points at 4,529.

INDEX SHAKERS. . .

ICICI Bank [Get Quote] and HDFC Bank [Get Quote] dropped 3.7% each to Rs 711 and Rs 1,217, respectively.

DLF shed 3.3% at Rs 549, and Reliance Infrastructure slipped 2.5% to Rs 1,068.

HDFC and Hindalco [Get Quote] plunged 2% each to Rs 2,414 and Rs 140, respectively.

Larsen & Toubro, Tata Power [Get Quote] and Reliance Communications [Get Quote] declined nearly 2% each to Rs 2,796, Rs 1,019 and Rs 440, respectively.

Maruti [Get Quote], BHEL and Jaiprakash Associates [Get Quote] were down 1% each at Rs 670, Rs 1,787 and Rs 187, respectively.

AND THE MOVERS . . .

Sterlite surged 2.7% to Rs 613.

Infosys [Get Quote] and TCS [Get Quote] advanced over 1% each to Rs 1,625 and Rs 828, respectively. Satyam [Get Quote] was up nearly 1% at Rs 406.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 252.70 crore followed by Reliance Capital [Get Quote] (Rs 237.80 crore), Reliance (Rs 214.15 crore), Vishal Info (213.20 crore) and ICICI Bank (Rs 136.90 crore).

Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 2.45 crore shares followed by Chambal Fertilisers (1.13 crore), Nagarjuna Fertilisers (1.10 crore), Ispat Industries [Get Quote] (1 crore) and Vishal Info (93.20 lakh).