The Sensex opened 12 points lower at 13,838, and soon touched a low of 13,798. Fresh buying, thereafter, helped the index rebound into the positive zone and zip past the 14,000-mark.
The Sensex rallied to a high of 14,206 - up 408 points from the day's low. The index pared some gains towards the close and eventually finished with a gain of 254 points at 14,104.
The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,657 stocks trade,d 1,850 advanced, 733 declined and 74 were unchanged today.
The NSE Nifty gained 81 points at 4,240.
Index movers...
Reliance Infrastructure zoomed nearly 7% to Rs 919.
BHEL, ITC and Wipro soared 6% each to Rs 1,598, Rs 190 and Rs 395, respectively.
Cipla and Reliance Communications surged 5% each to Rs 238 and Rs 468, respectively.
Tata Steel gained 4.3% at Rs 624. ACC rallied 4% to Rs 565.
SBI moved up 3.7% to Rs 1,398. Mahindra & Mahindra and Hindalco added 3.3% each to Rs 546 and Rs 147, respectively.
HDFC advanced nearly 3% to Rs 2,146. ICICI Bank, TCS and Larsen & Toubro gained around 2.5% each at Rs 661, Rs 834 and Rs 2,572, respectively.
Grasim, Hindustan Unilever and NTPC were up around 2% each to Rs 1,765, Rs 233 and Rs 185, respectively.
...and the shakers
Maruti plunged over 9% to Rs 588.
Jaiprakash Associates tumbled over 4% to Rs 159. Bharti Airtel dropped 2.5% to Rs 779.
DLF and Tata Motors shed 2% each at Rs 454 and Rs 412, respectively.
Value & volume toppers
Reliance Capital topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 424.30 crore followed by Reliance Infrastructure (Rs 254.35 crore), Reliance (Rs 218 crore), Larsen & Toubro (Rs 160.85 crore) and Reliance Natural Resources (Rs 160 crore).
Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 2.21 crore shares followed by IDFC (1.23 crore), IFCI (1.20 crore), Reliance Petroleum (95.30 lakh) and Ispat Industries (72.25 lakh).
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