The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 53 points at 14,964, and the mood stayed bullish right through the session on buying in power, metal and banking stocks.The index zoomed to a high of 15,112 in late noon deals before closing with a gain of 181 points at 15,092.The BSE Metal index zoomed over 3% (370 points) to 11,475. The BSE Realty, Auto, Bankex and Capital Goods indices also finished with sharp gains today.The market breadth was bullish - out of 2,713 scrips traded, 1,790 logged gains.INDEX GAINERS & LOSERSHindalco zoomed over 7% to Rs 166. Reliance Energy gained nearly 7% to Rs 668.BHEL moved up over 4% to Rs 1,641.HDFC Bank and Reliance Communications added over 4% each at Rs 1,201 and Rs 561, respectively.Bajaj added over 3% at Rs 2,195. M&M, Maruti, Tata Steel and HDFC also finished with gains today.ONGC dropped nearly 1% to Rs 893. Infosys and Wipro declined marginally to Rs 1,922 and Rs 480, respectively.INFRA, METAL STOCKS SIZZLEGMR Infra zoomed nearly 14% to Rs 952. Lanco Infrastructure gained 9% to Rs 252. Alstom Projects advanced 7% to Rs 882. Reliance Industrial Infrastructure gained 10% at Rs 558.Sterlite gained over 5% at Rs 642. SAIL advanced nearly 5% to Rs 144. Tata Steel was up over 2% at Rs 672.MOST ACTIVE COUNTERSGMR Infrastructure was the most active counter with a turnover of Rs 454 crore followed by DLF (Rs 228 crore), Time Technoplast (Rs 148 crore), Reliance Energy (Rs 133 crore) and Unitech (Rs 118 crore).
