The Sensex opened with a small positive gap of five points at 7,997, and touched a high of 8,048 in early morning deals. After drifting to a low of 7,951 (an intra-day swing of 97 points), the Sensex finally finished with a loss of 17 points at 7,975.All the sectoral indices largely declined today. The BSE Auto Index dropped 1.5% (51 points) to 3,484. The BSE Metal Index declined 0.8% (48 points) to 5,691. The BSE Teck, FMCG, Oil & Gas and PSU indices also declined.The BSE Bankex was up 0.5% (23 points) at 4,552. The BSE Healthcare Index was also up 0.5% (14 points) at 2,720.Advances and declines were evenly matched - out of 2,477 scrips traded, 1,275 advanced, 1,139 declined and 63 were unchanged today.Reliance declined Rs 4 to Rs 764. HLL was down Rs 2 at Rs 165, and ITC also slipped Rs 2 to Rs 117. While ONGC was up Rs 2 at Rs 932, SBI was flat at Rs 885.TCS dropped Rs 21 to Rs 1,422. Infosys was down Rs 10 at Rs 2,512.Satyam and Wipro also declined today.Tata Motors declined over 4% (Rs 22) to Rs 498. Bajaj was down Rs 32 at Rs. 1,765. Maruti and Hero Honda also declined today.Tata Power slipped 3.8% (Rs 16) to Rs 398. NTPC was down 2.6% (Rs 3) to Rs 96. Reliance Energy was down Rs 7 at Rs 523.Ranbaxy was firm right through the session, and moved up nearly 4% (Rs 13) to Rs 357. Cipla was up 2% (Rs 7) at Rs 374. Dr. Reddy's declined 2.6% (Rs 21) to Rs 822.Grasim moved up 3.6% (Rs 40) to Rs 1,153. HDFC was up Rs 15 at Rs 928. Bharti added Rs 7 to Rs 337.Cummins moved up over 5% to Rs 140. Geometric was up 5% at Rs 88. Suzlon added 4% (Rs 29) to Rs 688.Micro Inks touched a high of Rs 688 and dropped to a low of Rs 642 before closing with a gain of 3% (Rs 17) at Rs 644.Orchid Chemicals declined 7% (Rs 17) to Rs 226. Ispat, which reported a Q2 loss of Rs 233 crore, declined 6% to Rs 15.Indiabulls dropped 10% (Rs 17) to Rs 158. India Infoline was down over 6% at Rs 118.SBI was the most active counter with a turnover of Rs 121 crore followed by Reliance (Rs 120 crore), Suzlon (Rs 112 crore), Reliance Capital (Rs 84 crore) and Indiabulls (Rs 76 crore).
