Mirroring the solid strength in the global markets sparked by the statement of US Federal Reserve chief on going slow on interest rate hikes, the Sensex opened with a huge positive gap of 183 points at 10,190 and did not bother to look back today. Steady buying saw the index rally to a high of 10,410. Eventually, the Sensex broke its five-day losing streak to close with a huge gain of 346 points at 10,353.The BSE Bankex and the Metal index surged 5% each to 4247 and 7810, respectively. The FMCG index gained 3.5% at 1920. The Auto and Teck indices were up 3% each at 4270 and 2527, respectively.The Mid-cap and Small-cap indices finished with small gains of 1.3% each at 4128 and 4944, respectively.The market breadth was positive - out of 2,446 stocks traded, 1,393 advanced, 976 declined and 77 were unchanged today.INDEX MOVERS & SHAKERSAll the Sensex scrips finished with gains today. Ranbaxy zoomed over 7% to Rs 350. Reliance Energy, Tata Steel, Tata Motors and Hindalco surged around 6% each to Rs 437, Rs 487, Rs 697 and Rs 164, respectively.ICICI Bank, SBI and Bajaj Auto advanced over 5% each to Rs 492, Rs 726 and Rs 2,510, respectively.Infosys advanced 2.6% to Rs 1,648. While ONGC gained 1.7% at Rs 1,081, Reliance perked up 1.4% to Rs 996. VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERSReliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 345.70 crore followed by Tata Steel (Rs 105.74 crore), Sterlite (Rs 94.78 crore), Reliance Capital (Rs 85.52 crore) and Ranbaxy (Rs 80.74 crore).G V Films led the volume chart with trades of around 54.52 lakh shares followed by Gujarat Ambuja (35.63 lakh), Reliance (34.63 lakh), SAIL (26.62 lakh) and Sterlite (25.71 lakh).
