The Sensex opened with a small positive gap of five points at 7,997, and touched a high of 8,045 in early morning deals. After drifting to a low of 7,951 (an intra-day swing of 94points), the Sensex finally finished with a loss of 17 points at 7,975.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.
