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Market@16 March: Day's report

Select pivotals remain strong, across-the-board selling in new economy stocks.
In the second half of trading, the market witnessed across-the-board aggressive selling in the new economy stocks. Most of the software stocks ended the day at the lower limit after recovering from the morning blues. HLL and SBI remained strong throughout the day else the index would have been down by more than 200 points.

Sensex down 148 points. Nifty down 57 points.

Sensex

• Open: 5249.98
• High: 5301.44
• Low: 5077.33
• Close: 5102.41

Nifty

• Open: 1620.40
• High: 1621.20
• Low: 1554.30
• Close: 1563.25

• Advances: 779
• Declines: 1432
• BSE volume: Rs 4,009 crore

Stocks at upper circuit
SSI, Polaris, HVL Tech, VSNL, Morepen Labs, Monsanto, PSI, DSQ Bio, Wockhardt, SBI, Corporation Bank, Telco, Bajaj Tempo, Indal, RPG Life Sciences, Agrevo, Elbee Services, Andhar Paper and Nath Seeds.

Stocks at lower circuit
Wipro, Infosys Tech, Ravalgaon, Fujitsu ICICM, Onward Tech, Dr Reddy's, Worldwide Tech, Satyam Computer, PentaMedia, Kopran, Aftek Infosys, Anco Comm, Leading Edge Systems, Hinduja Finance, Silverline, Melstar TEch, Krone Communication, RS Software, ISPL, Rolta and Zee Telefilms

Stocks up over 5 per cent
Sun Pharma, Hughes Soft, National Aluminium, Hindustan Organic Chemicals, Medicorp Tech, Linc Pen and Ucal Fuels.

Stocks down over 4 per cent
L&T, Reliance Petroleum, ACC, ICICI, HPCL, Ojas Techno, Alok Tex, Rhone-Poulenc, Knoll Pharma, Kotak Mahindra Finance, Bombay Dyeing, MRF and Peerless Shipping.

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