The Sensex today opened 58 points lower at 15,712. The BSE benchmark index touched a low of 15,685 in early trades, and thereafter rebounded in the noon trades to touch a high of 15,854.
The index moved in a extremely narrow range of 169 points, depsite the futures & options expiry today. Towards the end of the day, the Sensex slipped for a brief period but recovered to finally end at 15,781, up 11 points.
Among the sectoral indices, the BSE Consumer Durables soared 4% to 3,334. Rajesh Exports and Videocon soared 8.5% each to Rs 50 and Rs 243, respectively.Gitanjali Gems advanced around 5% to Rs 125 and Titan was up 3%.
Capital Goods and Healthcare indices were up over 1% each.
On the other hand, Metal, Bankex and Realty indices slipped around 0.5% each.
The market breadth was positive, out of 2,843 shares traded, 1,640 advanced and 1,126 declined today.
Index movers...
Bharti Airtel surged around 3% to Rs 416. Wipro and Tata Power advanced 2% each to Rs 568 and Rs 1,357, respectively.
Larsen & Toubro, Sterlite, BHEL and Mahindra & Mahindra were up 1-1.5% each.
...and the shakers
Tata Steel slumped 5% to Rs 436. Tata Motors and Hindustan Unilever slipped around 2.5% each to Rs 486 and Rs 257, respectively.
Hero Honda, DLF, Reliance Communication, ICICI Bank and Hindalco were down 1-2% each.
Value & volume toppers
Aban Offshore topped the combined value chart with a turnover of Rs 1,666 crore. It was followed by Tata Steel (Rs 963 crore), Reliance (Rs 723 crore), Unitech (Rs 672 crore) and Reliance Natural Resources (Rs 520 crore).
Mahindra Satyam topped the volume chart with trades of 69 million. It was followed by Reliance Natural Resources (59 million), IFCI (44 million), Ispat Industries (28 crore) and First Source (28 million).
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