The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 228 points at 10,455 following negative cues from the global markets. Unabated selling in banking, metal, realty and technology stocks saw the index slip deeper into red as the day progressed.
The Sensex touched a low of 10,128, and finally ended with a loss of 513 points at 10,170.
The BSE Metal index slumped almost 8% at 5,619, and the Realty index plunged 7.5% to 2,434. The TECk, Oil & Gas and Bankex dropped around 5.5% each to 2,160, 6,398 and 5,505, respectively.
The market breadth was fairly negative - out of 2,588 stocks traded, 1,733 declined, 778 advanced and the rest were unchanged today.
Tata Steel slumped 12% to Rs 245, and Sterlite plunged 10% to Rs 265.
Reliance Communications tumbled 8.8% to Rs 236. ICICI Bank, Jaiprakash Associates, Tata Motors and Bharti Airtel cracked around 8% each to Rs 396, Rs 73, Rs 228 and Rs 667, respectively.
Mahindra & Mahindra and ACC crumbled over 7% each to Rs 379 and Rs 452, respectively.
SBI and Reliance Infrastructure shed 6.5% each at Rs 1,392 and Rs 473, respectively.
Reliance, Wipro and Hindalco slipped nearly 6% each to Rs 1,316, Rs 279 and Rs 61, respectively.
Larsen & Toubro, NTPC and DLF dropped over 5% each to Rs 815, Rs 144 and Rs 272, respectively.
Tata Power declined 4.6% to Rs 753. Maruti and Grasim were down over 4% each at Rs 649 and Rs 1,160, respectively.
HDFC Bank, HDFC, Infosys and ONGC were down around 3.5% each at Rs 1,049, Rs 1,905, Rs 1,300 and Rs 761, respectively.
ITC gained 1% at Rs 171. Hindustan Unileverl, up 0.5%, was the only other gainer among the index stocks.
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