The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 61 points at 15,665. After touching a high of 15,726 in morning trades, the index slipped into red owing to weakness in technology stocks.As selling spread to other counters, the index tumbled to a low of 15,467 - down 259 points from the day's high. Fresh buying helped the index cut the loss, and finally close with a loss of 99 points at 15,504.The BSE IT index slipped 1.4% to 4387. The FMCG index was up nearly 1% at 2091.The market breadth was almost neutral - Out of 2,812 stocks traded, 1,381 advanced, 1,365 declined and 66 were unchanged today.INDEX SHAKERS...TCS shed 2.5% to Rs 997. Satyam slipped 2% to Rs 422, and Infosys dropped over 1% to Rs 1,806.Reliance Communications declined 2.3% to Rs 531, and Bharti Airtel was down 2% at Rs 814.NTPC and HDFC dropped 1.5% each to Rs 183 and Rs 2,183, respectivelyt. ICICI Bank declined 1.3% to Rs 895. ...AND THE MOVERSReliance Energy surged nearly 3% to Rs 908. Maruti moved up 1% to Rs 874.VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERSGMR Infra topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 136.50 crore followed by Iwind Energy (Rs 125 crore), Reliance Energy (Rs 121.80 crore), IFCI (Rs 115.30 crore) and United Spirits (Rs 104.60 crore).Ispat Industries led the volume chart with trades of around 3.63 crore shares followed by IFCI (1.45 crore), Centurion Bank of Punjab (1.26 crore), Iwind Energy (96.50 lakh) and Mangalore Chemicals (87.25 lakh).
