The Sensex opened with a huge positive gap of 282 points at 17,504. Considerable buying support saw the index move higher as the day progressed.

The index zoomed to an intra-day high of 18,406 towards the closing bell.

The Sensex finally ended with a record gain of 1,140 points (6.6%) at 18,362 - the first-ever, four-digit single day gain for the index.

The Nifty gained 350 points to close at 5,383.

The index, however, ended the week on a negative note - down 652 points (3.4%).

The market breadth was positive - out of 2,758 stocks traded, 1,561 advanced, 1,161 declined and 36 were unchanged today.
 

BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY GAINS�
Date	Close	Prv Cls	Net Chg	% Chg
25-Jan-08	18361.66	17221.70	1139.92	6.6
14-Nov-07	19929.06	19035.48	893.58	4.7
23-Oct-07	18492.84	17613.99	878.85	5.0
23-Jan-08	17594.10	16729.94	864.13	5.2
09-Oct-07	18280.24	17491.39	788.85	4.5

No losers in index stocks

All the Sensex stocks rallied today with 29 of the 30 scrips advancing over 2% each.

Hindalco [Get Quote] zoomed 14% to Rs 173. Reliance Energy [Get Quote] soared nearly 12% to Rs 2,030.

ICICI Bank [Get Quote] surged over 11% to Rs 1,259. Larsen & Toubro rallied 10% to Rs 3,890.

NTPC and Bajaj Auto [Get Quote] soared over 9% each to Rs 222 and Rs 2,300, respectively.

Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors [Get Quote] and ONGC [Get Quote] advanced over 7.5% each to Rs 674, Rs 712 and Rs 1,015, respectively.

Bharti Airtel [Get Quote], Infosys [Get Quote] and Reliance Communications [Get Quote] rallied over 7% each to Rs 915, Rs 1,521 and Rs 668, respectively.

Tata Steel [Get Quote], HDFC Bank [Get Quote] and Hindustan Unilever gained 6.3% each at Rs 714, Rs 1,601 and Rs 199, respectively.

Ranbaxy [Get Quote] and DLF moved up around 6% each to Rs 368 and Rs 945, respectively.

ITC advanced over 5% to Rs 198. Grasim [Get Quote], Reliance and ACC added 4.7% each to Rs 3,033, Rs 2,610 and Rs 788, respectively.

Cipla, TCS [Get Quote] and HDFC rallied around 4.5% each at Rs 183, Rs 882 and Rs 2,729, respectively.

Wipro [Get Quote] and Maruti [Get Quote] were up over 4% each to Rs 429 and Rs 830, respectively.

Most active counters

Reliance Capital [Get Quote] topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 255.70 crore followed by Reliance Energy (Rs 207.80 crore), Reliance Natural Resources [Get Quote] (Rs 199.75 crore), GMR Infrastructure [Get Quote] (Rs 179.20 crore) and Reliance (Rs 158.80 crore).

Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 1.43 crore shares followed by Ispat Industries [Get Quote] (1.41 crore), IFCI (1.08 crore), GMR Infrastructure (99.65 lakh) and Reliance Petroleum [Get Quote] (90.55 lakh).