Following yesterday's late pull-back, the Sensex opened with a positive gap of 110 points at 14,609. Agressive buying in the second half of the trading backed by a sharp fall in US crude oil prices saw the index rally past the 15,000-mark.
Banking, realty, energy and capital goods stocks were the major gainers today. The Sensex touched a high of 15,106, and finally ended with a gain of 551 points at 15,050.
The BSE Realty index soared 7.3% (367 points) to 5,367, and the Bankex zoomed 6% (425 points) to 7,447.
The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,733 stocks traded, 1,675 advanced, 986 declined and the rest were unchanged today.
INDEX MOVERS...
SBI and ICICI Bank zoomed over 7% each to Rs 1,521 and Rs 713, respectively. HDFC soared 4.7% to Rs 2,445, and HDFC Bank rallied 3.5% to Rs 1,341.
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DLF and Jaiprakash Associates surged around 7% each to Rs 530 and Rs 174, respectively. Reliance Infrastructure gained 6% at Rs 1,042.
ONGC soared 7% to Rs 1,102. Maruti and Larsen & Toubro rallied over 4.5% each to Rs 664 and Rs 2,681, respectively.
TCS, ACC, Reliance Communications and Wipro surged 4% each to Rs 849, Rs 588, Rs 405 and Rs 451, respectively.
BHEL and Reliance moved up 3.5% each to Rs 1,785 and Rs 2,214, respectively.
Grasim, Infosys and Tata Power were up 3% each at Rs 2,002, Rs 1,775 and Rs 1,070, respectively.
...AND THE SHAKERS
Ranbaxy and Tata Motors slipped nearly 2% each to Rs 490 and Rs 430, respectively.
VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS
Resurgere Mines topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 928.50 crore followed by Reliance Capital (Rs 292.40 crore), Reliance (Rs 218.35 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 209.25 crore) and Reliance Natural Resources (Rs 198.40 crore).
Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 2.06 crore shares followed Resurgere Mines (1.63 crore), IFCI (1.05 crore), IDFC (90.40 lakh) and Marksans (85.25 lakh).