The Sensex opened with a negative of 211 points at 15,852 owing to weakness due to global markets.
The index touched a day's low of 15,709 in morning hours, it recovered partially and touched a day's high of 15,985 due to some buying in oil & gas sector(HPCL,BPCL,IOC.Etc..). The BSE Sensex finally ended with a loss of 100 points at 15,962.The NSE Nifty settled with a loss of 24 points at 4,716. The market breadth was negative - out of 2,722 stocks traded, 1,817 declined, 847 advanced and 58 were unchanged today.
Index losers Bharti Airtel tumbled 4.1% to Rs 841. Reliance Infrastructure down 3.9% at Rs 1,125.Satyam declined 3.6% to Rs 500. BHEL and HDFC slipped around 3% each to Rs 1,548 and Rs 2,459, respectively.Jaiprakash Associates dipped 2.6% to Rs 206. Larsen & Toubro lost 2.3% to Rs 2,849.HDFC Bank dropped 1.8% to Rs 1,282. Infosys was down 1.4% at Rs 1,922.NTPC, Tata Steel and Grasim were the other major losers, down 0.7% each at Rs 160, Rs 862 and Rs 2,194, respectively.
Index gainers ACC gained 3.7% to Rs 649. Ranbaxy moved up 3% at Rs 530.DLF and Wipro advanced 2.6% each to Rs 582 and Rs 508, respectively.Reliance was up 2.2% to Rs 2,407. Tata Motors and Cipla added 1.3% each to Rs 570 and Rs 210, respectively.Hindalco and ONGC were up 1.1% each at Rs 184 and Rs 842, respectively.
