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Day End Report

he Sensex opened 81 points higher at 14,563, but soon slipped into a negative zone for a whole day.
The index saw the profit booking in late noon deals in the realty, banking & power stocks. All the other sectoral indices were in red too.
The Sensex moved in a range of 301 points between 14,262 (low) and 14,563 (high).
The index finally ended with a loss of 185 points at 14,297.
The NSE Nifty ended with a loss of 45 points at 4,292.
The market breadth was negative - out of 2,707 stocks traded, 1,583 declined, 1,021 advanced and 103 were unchanged today.
DLF plunged 4% to Rs 478. Reliance Infrastrustructure tumbled 3.6% to Rs 966.
SBI declined nearly 3% to Rs 1,331. ICICI Bank dropped 2.7% to Rs 649. HDFC slipped 2.5% to Rs 2.286, while Tata Motors lost 2.4% to Rs 423.
BHEL and Reliance Communications were down 2.3% each to Rs 1,681 and Rs 397, respectively.
HDFC Bank dropped 1.8% to Rs 1,233, and TCS was down 1.7% at Rs 818.
Tata Power and Larsen & Toubro slipped 1.6% each to Rs 1,012 and Rs 2,576, respectively.
Reliance and Ranbaxy were down around 1.4% each at Rs 2,148 and Rs 511, respectively.
ONGC, Maruti and ITC were the other major losers today.

Hindalco gained over 2.1% to Rs 138. Tata Steel advanced 0.7% to Rs 581.
Infosys added 0.6% at Rs 1,708. Mahindra and Mahindra was up 0.3% to Rs 576.

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