The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 317 points at 9,362, on the back of on-going pull-back in the market. Intra-day profit taking saw the index pare gains during the day, the Sensex however ended on a firm note at 9,788 - up 744 points
With today's gain, the main index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Sensex, gained over 27% (2,091 points) from it's Monday low of 7,697. However, the index was down almost 24% (3,072 points) for the month, and down nearly 52% (10,499 points) so far this year.
The BSE Metal index surged over 10% to 5,368, and Oil & Gas index soared over 9% to 6,196.
The market breath was fairly positve - out of 2,575 stocks traded, 1,577 advanced, 915 declined and the rest were unchanged today.
Mahindra & Mahindra zoomed 23% to Rs 372.
HDFC soared 17.5% to Rs 1,765, and Jaiprakash Associates surged 16.5% to Rs 72.
ICICI Bank rallied 15.5% to Rs 399. Sterlite gained 14.5% at Rs 282.
Reliance and Reliance Communications moved up 13.8% each to Rs 1,371 and Rs 221, respectively.
Hindalco advanced over 13% to Rs 60. Tata Steel and Tata Power were up around 12% each at Rs 210 and Rs 690, respectively.
Tata Motors surged over 9% to Rs 172. DLF and BHEL rallied 8.8% each to Rs 220 and Rs 1,282, respectively.
HDFC Bank gained over 8% at Rs 1,024. Satyam added 7.6% to Rs 305.
Hindustan Unilever advanced 6.6% to Rs 222. Reliance Infrastructure, Wipro and Infosys were up around 6% each to Rs 457, Rs 272 and Rs 1,382, respectively.
Larsen & Toubro and Bharti Airtel gained 5.5% each at Rs 805 and Rs 649, respectively. NTPC was up nearly 5% at Rs 141.
Ranbaxy slipped 2% to Rs 169. TCS was down 1% at Rs 537.
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