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The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 185 points at 9,462 on the back of weak cues from the US markets. The index touched a low of 9,460, and then displayed lacklustre movement in morning trades.
Buying interest picked up in mid-noon trades as the index recovered most of its losses. The Sensex finally ended with a marginal loss of 29 points 9,619.
The NSE Nifty ended at 2,926, down 9 points.
The BSE Healthcare and Metal indices were down over 1% each at 2,723 and 5,189, respectively.
The market breadth was marginally negative - out of 2,507 stocks traded, 1,263 declined, 1,138 advanced and 106 were unchanged on Wednesday.
INDEX MOVERS...
Maruti [Get Quote] rallied 4% to Rs 633.
ACC and Jaiprakash Associates [Get Quote] surged around 2.5% each to Rs 558 and Rs 77, respectively.
Tata Power [Get Quote], Bharti Airtel [Get Quote], ICICI Bank [Get Quote] and HDFC [Get Quote] advanced around 1.7% each to Rs 808, Rs 674, Rs 435 and Rs 1,530, respectively.
Reliance Communications [Get Quote] was up 1% at Rs 173.
...AND THE SHAKERS
Ranbaxy [Get Quote] plunged 5% to Rs 221, and Grasim [Get Quote] shed 4% at Rs 1,360.
Reliance Infrastructure dropped 3.7% to Rs 542. Tata Steel [Get Quote] slipped 3.4% to Rs 190.
Tata Motors [Get Quote], Sun Pharma [Get Quote] and TCS [Get Quote] declined around 2% each to Rs 136, Rs 1,096 and Rs 514, respectively.
Wipro [Get Quote], Sterlite, HDFC Bank and ONGC [Get Quote] were down around 1.5% each at Rs 222, Rs 274, Rs 933 and Rs 707, respectively.
MOST ACTIVE COUNTERS
Educomp Solutions [Get Quote] topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 227.50 crore followed by Reliance (Rs 190.50 crore), Reliance Capital [Get Quote] (Rs 180.65 crore), Reliance Infrastructure (Rs 167.25 crore) and United Spirits [Get Quote] (Rs 145 crore).
Satyam [Get Quote] led the volume chart with trades of around three crore shares followed by Unitech (2.15 crore), IFCI (2.10 crore), GVK Power (1.37 crore) and Cals Refineries (83 lakh).
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