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Day End Report

The Sensex opened 32 points higher at 8,779, and touched a low of 8,727 in the opening deals. The index, thereafter, exhibited lacklustre movement in the morning trades. Aggressive buying in noon trades saw the index break-out of the day's trading range and surge to a high of 9,245. Realty, metal, energy and banking stocks were the major gainers today.

The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 482 points at 9,230.

The BSE Realty index soared 12.5% to 1,754. The Metal index surged 8% to 4,804, and the Oil & Gas index rallied nearly 6% to 5,683.

The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,226 stocks traded, 1,496 advanced, 671 declined and the rest were unchanged today.

Tata Steel and Jaiprakash Associates zoomed nearly 14% each to Rs 188 and Rs 71, respectively. Tata Motors soared over 13% to Rs 151.

DLF surged over 11% to Rs 214. Sterlite rallied 10% to Rs 257.

ICICI Bank moved up nearly 9% to Rs 364. Reliance and Larsen & Toubro added around 8.5% each to Rs 1,159 and Rs 748, respectively.

Reliance Infrastructure advanced 7.5% to Rs 546. BHEL gained 7% at Rs 1,358.

HDFC, ACC and SBI were up over 6.5% each to Rs 1,509, Rs 428 and Rs 1,169, respectively.

Tata Power gained 5.5% at Rs 684, and Reliance Communications added 5% to Rs 197.

Mahindra & Mahindra and Wipro were up 4.7% each at Rs 254 and Rs 234, respectively.

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