After opening 33 points lower at 10,305, the Sensex slipped to a low of 10,116 - down 222 points - in early trades. The index thereafter recovered and displayed lacklustre movement for most of the noon session.
However, a fresh round of buying in late noon trades saw the index rally to a high of 10,668 - up 552 points. The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 293 points at 10,631.
The BSE Realty index surged over 12% to 2,402. The Bankex rallied 6.6% to 5,741, and the Power index gained 5.7% at 1,781. The BSE IT index, however, slipped 4.3% to 2,750.
The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,655 stocks traded, 1,809 advanced, 777 declined and the rest were unchanged today.
DLF zoomed nearly 15% to Rs 290. Ranbaxy and Jaiprakash Associates soared nearly 10% each to Rs 209 and Rs 89, respectively.
Tata Power surged 8.3% to Rs 751. Reliance Communications and ITC rallied 7.7% each to Rs 251 and Rs 171, respectively.
ONGC gained over 7% at Rs 761. ICICI Bank, SBI and Tata Steel advanced 6.5% each to Rs 459, Rs 1,321 and Rs 240, respectively.
BHEL moved up 5.5% to Rs 1,413. Bharti Airtel and Mahindra & Mahindra were up over 4% each at Rs 717 and Rs 400, respectively.
HDFC Bank, Hindustan Unilever and Larsen & Toubro are up around 3.5% each at Rs 1,111, Rs 246 and Rs 923, respectively.
Satyam and TCS slumped 7.5% each to Rs 278 and Rs 508, respectively.
Wipro plunged nearly 5% to Rs 263, and Infosys shed 3.3% at Rs 1,333.
Sterlite slipped 2% to Rs 289, and ACC was down 1% at Rs 506.
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