The Sensex opened 74 points higher at 9,078. The index after moving ahead, pared gains and touched a low of 9,054 in noon trades. Steady buying, thereafter, mainly in realty and metal stocks helped the index bounce back to higher levels. The Sensex touched a high of 9,271 - up 217 points from the day's low - in late trades. The index finally settled with a gain of 253 points at 9,257.
The BSE Realty index soared 6.3% to 1,644, and the Metal index surged 4.4% to 4,880. The Bankex and the Oil & Gas index were up nearly 4% each at 4,790 and 6,089, respectively.
The market breadth was positive - out of 2,528 stocks traded, 1,406 advanced and 1,023 declined, today.
Ranbaxy soared over 8% to Rs 215. ICICI Bank surged 7.8% to Rs 411.
DLF rallied nearly 7% to Rs 178. Larsen & Toubro and Tata Motors gained 5% each at Rs 671 and Rs 147, respectively.
Mahindra & Mahindra moved up 4.7% to Rs 285. Reliance and ONGC advanced around 4% each to Rs 1,276 and Rs 645, respectively.
HDFC Bank and HDFC added 3% each to Rs 916 and Rs 1,489, respectively.
Tata Steel, ITC and Infosys gained nearly 3% each to Rs 177, Rs 176 and Rs 1,285, respectively.
Reliance Infrastructure, Wipro and Hindustan Unilever were up around 2.5% each at Rs 553, Rs 232 and Rs 259, respectively.
Reliance Communications shed 3.4% at Rs 166, and Maruti slipped over 3% to Rs 521.
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