The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 317 points at 9,362, on the back of on-going pull-back in the market. Intra-day profit taking saw the index pare gains during the day, the Sensex however ended on a firm note at 9,788 - up 744 points.
With today's gain, the main index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Sensex, gained over 27% (2,091 points) from it's Monday low of 7,697. However, the index was down almost 24% (3,072 points) for the month, and down nearly 52% (10,499 points) so far this year.
The BSE Metal index surged over 10% to 5,368, and Oil & Gas index soared over 9% to 6,196.
The market breath was fairly positve - out of 2,575 stocks traded, 1,577 advanced, 915 declined and the rest were unchanged today.
MAJOR INDEX MOVERS...
Mahindra & Mahindra zoomed 23% to Rs 372.
HDFC soared 17.5% to Rs 1,765, and Jaiprakash Associates surged 16.5% to Rs 72.
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ICICI Bank rallied 15.5% to Rs 399. Sterlite gained 14.5% at Rs 282.
Reliance and Reliance Communications moved up 13.8% each to Rs 1,371 and Rs 221, respectively.
Hindalco advanced over 13% to Rs 60. Tata Steel and Tata Power were up around 12% each at Rs 210 and Rs 690, respectively.
...OTHER INDEX MOVERS
Tata Motors surged over 9% to Rs 172. DLF and BHEL rallied 8.8% each to Rs 220 and Rs 1,282, respectively.
HDFC Bank gained over 8% at Rs 1,024. Satyam added 7.6% to Rs 305.
Hindustan Unilever advanced 6.6% to Rs 222. Reliance Infrastructure, Wipro and Infosys were up around 6% each to Rs 457, Rs 272 and Rs 1,382, respectively.
Larsen & Toubro and Bharti Airtel gained 5.5% each at Rs 805 and Rs 649, respectively. NTPC was up nearly 5% at Rs 141.
...AND THE SHAKERS
Ranbaxy slipped 2% to Rs 169. TCS was down 1% at Rs 537.
MOST ACTIVE COUNTERS
Reliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 435.80 crore followed by Reliance Capital (Rs 187 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 170.60 crore), SBI (Rs 148.40 crore and Reliance Communications (Rs 135.60 crore).
Suzlong led the volume chart with trades of around 1.69 crore shares followed by Hindalco (1.34 crore), Reliance Petroleum (1 crore), Unitech (85 lakh) and Core Projects (81.37 lakh).