The Sensex opened 38 points lower at 9,794, and soon touched a low of 9,790. The index, thereafter, exhibited range-bound movement for most part of the trading day.
Fresh buying in late trades saw the index rally past the 10,000-mark to a high of 10,009. The Sensex finally ended with a gain of 145 points at 9,977.
The BSE PSU index soared 5% to 5,129, and the Oil & Gas index surged 3.3% to 6,554.
The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,581 stocks traded, 1,866 advanced, 648 declined and the rest were unchanged today.
INDEX MOVERS...
ONGC soared 6% to Rs 714. Grasim surged over 4.5% to Rs 1,228.
ACC and Tata Motors rallied 4.3% each to Rs 536 and Rs 165, respectively.
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HDFC Bank advanced over 4% to Rs 984. Reliance and NTPC moved up 3.5% each to Rs 1,387 and Rs 174, respectively.
SBI gained 2.8% at Rs 1,238. Ranbaxy and TCS added 2.5% each to Rs 219 and Rs 481, respectively.
Infosys, Wipro and BHEL were up 2% each at Rs 1,123, Rs 239 and Rs 1,401, respectively.
...AND THE SHAKERS
Sterlite slumped 7% to Rs 286. HDFC plunged over 4% to Rs 1,545.
Reliance Infrastructure tumbled 2.5% to Rs 637. Reliance Communications shed over 2% to Rs 234.
DLF and Larsen & Toubro slipped 1.3% each to Rs 277 and Rs 810, respectively.
Tata Steel and Mahindra & Mahindra were down 1% each at Rs 225 and Rs 300, respectively.
MOST ACTIVE COUNTERS
Reliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 401.40 crore followed by HDIL (Rs 191.60 crore), SBI (Rs 163.80 crore), Educomp Solutions (Rs 150.75 crore) and Reliance Infrastructure (Rs 131.20 crore).
Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 1.92 crore shares followed by Suzlon (1.80 crore), Unitech (1.52 crore), HDIL (1.40 crore) and IFCI (1.14 crore).