Business OpportunitiesSensex ends flat, up 55pts
The Sensex today opened 55 points lower at 15,574 mirroring weak global vibes. The index slipped to a low of 15,423, down 206 points from the previous close.
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The bench-mark index however managed to erase all its losses and rebounded into the positive terrain to touch a high of 15,735 on the back of fresh buying. The Sensex moved in the range of 312 points and finally ended the day at 15,688, up 60 points (0.38%).
All the sectoral indices barring bankex and PSU ended in green. The BSE IT and the consumer durables added around 2% each to 4,134 and 3,216, respectively.Oil&gas and healthcare indices were up 1% each.
The market breadth was marginally positive, out of 2,816 shares traded, 1,676 advanced and 1,066 declined so far on the BSE.
INDEX MOVERS...
Tata Motors zoomed 7% to Rs 490. Wipro advanced 4% to Rs 544. Reliance, Reliance Communication and Grasim Industries soared over 2% each to Rs 2,024, Rs 262 and Rs 2,666, respectively.
NTPC, TCS and Larsen & Toubro were up 1.5% each.
...AND THE SHAKERS
SBI slipped 2% to Rs 1,747. BHEL and Bharti Airtel were down over 1.5% each at Rs 2,302 and Rs 407, respectively.
The NSE Nifty ended at 4,659, up 0.36%.
BPCL and Idea Cellular among the Nifty stocks were down 2% each at Rs 503 and Rs 80, respectively.
Ranbaxy on the other hand gained 7% at Rs 344.
VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS
Reliance topped the combined value chart with a total turnover of Rs 843 crore. It was followed by Suzlon (Rs 709 crore), HDIL (Rs 670 crore), DLF (Rs 670 crore) and Unitech (Rs 465 crore).
First Source topped the volume chart with trades of 169 million. It was followed by Suzlon (78 million), Mahindra Satyam (64 million), Unitech (62 million) and Ispat Industries (30 million).