Aggressive selling in index heavyweights saw the index tumble to a low of 10,018 - down 791 points - a level last seen on 21 July 2006. Renewed buying at lower levels helped the index cut losses and touch a high of 10,787 - a recovery of 769 points.
The Sensex, however, witnessed some selling pressure towards the end of the day and finally settled with a loss of 228 points at 10,581.
While the BSE Mid-cap index slipped 63 points to 3,657, the Small-cap index declined 107 points to 4,286.
The BSE Oil & Gas and Capital Goods indices plunged over 5% each to 6,828 and 7,665, respectively. The IT index shed 4% at 2,669, and the Auto index dropped 3.5% to 3,196. On the other hand, the BSE Realty index surged over 5% to 2,813, and the FMCG index added 1.7% to 1,903.
The market breadth was fairly negative - out of 2,623 stocks traded, 1,733 declined, 833 advanced and the rest were unchanged today.
Hindalco tumbled over 12% to Rs 70. Tata Motors slumped over 11% to Rs 251.
TCS tanked over 8.5% to Rs 495. Grasim and Reliance shed 8% each at Rs 1,371 and Rs 1,397, respectively.
Larsen & Toubro dropped 7.5% to Rs 826. Mahindra & Mahindra plunged 6.7% to Rs 452.
BHEL slipped nearly 6% to Rs 1,313, and Infosys declined nearly 5% to Rs 1,267.
ONGC, HDFC Bank and ACC were down over 4% each at Rs 803, Rs 1,087 and Rs 523, respectively.
Reliance Communications (RCom) zoomed nearly 10% to Rs 259. DFL soared over 8% to Rs 325.
Hindustan Unilever surged over 7% to Rs 248. HDFC rallied over 5% to Rs 1,801.
SBI advanced over 3% to Rs 1,544, and Jaiprakash Associates added 2.8% to Rs 75.
Sterlite moved up of 2% to Rs 299. Bharti Airtel was up 1.8% at Rs 731.
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