The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 61 points at 16,782. Agressive buying in telecom and financial stocks helped the index cross the 17,000-mark today.
The Sensex rallied to a high of 17,151, and finally ended with a gain of 405 points at 17,126.
The market breadth was marginally negative - out of 2,763 stocks traded, 1,459 declined and 1,248 advanced today.
The NSE Nifty moved up 112 points to close at 5,112.
Bharti Airtel zoomed 9.6% to Rs 925. Reliance Communications (RCom) soared 8.3% to Rs 577.
ICICI Bank surged 4.5% to Rs 916. HDFC and SBI rallied 4% each to Rs 2,694 and Rs 1,750, respectively. HDFC Bank advanced 3.5% to Rs 1,498.
Reliance Energy gained 4% at Rs 1,359. Wipro moved up 3.7% to Rs 466, and Tata Steel added 3.5% to Rs 803.
ONGC advanced over 2% to Rs 1,055. Reliance and ITC gained 1.7% each at Rs 2,625 and Rs 213, respectively.
Satyam, NTPC and Larsen & Toubro were up over 1% each at Rs 445, Rs 193 and Rs 2,971, respectively.
BHEL and Mahindra & Mahindra were also up 1% each at Rs 1,867 and Rs 636, respectively.
ACC dropped nearly 2% to Rs 783.
Maruti and DLF were down around 1% each to Rs 737 and Rs 668, respectively.
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