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Despite 550 points rally on Tuesday, the Sensex opened with a negative gap of 154 points at 14,896 owing to weakness in global markets. The index soon tumbled to a low of 14,766 on selling by funds in heavy-weight stocks led by banking and realty sectors.

The index tried to recover in the noon deals and touched a high of 14,994 points. The Sensex finally ended with a loss of 150 points at 14,899.

The market breadth was marginally positive - out of 2,685 stocks traded, 1,332 advanced, 1259 declined and 94 were unchanged today.

The NSE Nifty dropped 57 points to settle at 4,448.

Sterlite slumped 3.7% to Rs 613. ONGC tumbled 3% to Rs 1,068. HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries declined 2.8% each at Rs 1,303 and Rs 2,152 respectively.

ITC lost 2.6% to Rs 189. Hindustan Unilever dipped 2.5% to Rs 240. Reliance Infrastructure slipped 2.3% to Rs 1,017.

Reliance Communications declined 1.9% to Rs 397. DLF and NTPC were down 1.3% at Rs 522 and Rs 174, respectively.

Tata Steel and Bhel lost around 1.1% at Rs 582 and 1,765.HDFC, Bharti Airtel, Wipro, TCS, L&T, Tata Motors and Satyam lost less than one per cent.


Maruti advanced 2.9% at Rs 684. Hindalco gained 2.4% to Rs 126.  Jaiprakash Associates  and Tata Power were up around 1.7% each at Rs 177 and Rs 1,088 respectively.

Grasim Industries and State Bank of India gained 0.9% each at Rs 2,020 and Rs 1,535 respectively.

Infosys, ICICI Bank and Ranbaxy were up less than one per cent

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