The Sensex, taking cues from the US markets, opened with a huge positive gap of 135 points at 15,038, and zoomed to a high of 15,142 - up 239 ponits from the previous close.Lack of buying support at higher levels saw the index pare gains and display lacklustre movement for the major part of the day. Weakness in heavyweights like ITC and ICICI Bank towards the end saw the index erase all gains and slip to a low of 14,902. The Sensex finally ended with a marginal gain of 30 points at 14,933.While the BSE Oil & Gas index spurted over 1% to 7805, the FMCG index slipped 1.4% to 1937.The market breadth was extremely positive - out of 2,702 stocks traded, 1,686 advanced, 960 declined and 56 were unchanged today. INDEX MOVERS...Reliance Energy soared 3% to Rs 765. NTPC surged 2% to Rs 167.Bharti Airtel and HDFC rallied 1.7% each to Rs 876 and Rs 1,974, respectively.Cipla and Dr.Reddy's gained around 1.5% each at Rs 187 and Rs 635, respectively.Reliance moved up over 1% to Rs 1,806, and Tata Motors was up over 1% at Rs 657....AND THE SHAKERSITC plunged over 3% to Rs 167. ICICI Bank tumbled almost 2% to Rs 871.Bajaj Auto slipped 1.4% to Rs 2,275. Tata Steel was down over 1% at Rs 643.VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERSEveronn Systems topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 311.60 crore followed by IFCI (Rs 153 crore), HDIL (Rs 130 crore), SBI (Rs 128.30 crore) and Reliance (Rs 115.50 crore).IFCI led the volume chart with trades of around 2.30 crore shares followed by Reliance Natural Resources (2.25 crore), Dolat Investment (1.20 crore), Suryachakra Power (1.16 crore) and IKF Technologies (80.70 lakh).
