Unabated selling mainly in capital goods and metal stocks saw the index drift deeper into red as the day progressed. The Sensex tumbled to a low of 10,760 - down 723 points from the previous close, and finally settled with a loss of 674 points at 10,809.
The BSE Capital Goods index slumped almost 9% to 8,088. The Consumer Durables index crashed 8.8% to 2,126, and the Metal index shed 7.8% at 6,316.
The market breadth was fairly negative - out of 2,730 stocks traded, 1,849 declined, 811 advanced and the rest were unchanged today.
All index stocks ended in the negative territory today.
Jaiprakash Associates slumped 14.5% to Rs 73. Reliance Communications and Reliance Infrastructure tanked over 12% each to Rs 236 and Rs 556, respectively.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) tumbled 11% to Rs 893. Tata Steel and Sterlite plunged over 10% each to Rs 273 and Rs 292, respectively.
TCS shed 8.5% at Rs 542, and ICICI Bank dropped 7.4% to Rs 414.
HDFC and Hindalco slipped nearly 7% each to Rs 1,713 and Rs 79, respectively.
BHEL, Reliance and Bharti Airtel plunged around 6% each to Rs 1,394, Rs 1,519 and Rs 719, respectively.
Satyam, Tata Motors and Maruti declined over 5.5% each to Rs 272, Rs 282 and Rs 679, respectively.
Wipro slipped over 5% to Rs 277. ONGC, ITC, Infosys and Mahindra & Mahindra were down 4.7% each at Rs 839, Rs 161, Rs 1,331 and Rs 484, respectively.
Tata Power, Ranbaxy and NTPC declined over 4% each to Rs 794, Rs 269 and Rs 167, respectively.
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