The Sensex opend almost unchanged at 9,637 - up two points. The index, thereafter, soon slipped into red and was down around 75-odd points before the acting finance minister Pranab Mukherjee started his Interim Budget Speech.
The index extended losses during the course of the Speech, and finally plunged to a low of 9,279 as investors were dis-appointed from the non-eventful Budget. The Sensex finally (provisional) ended with a loss of 341 points at 9,294.