The index touched a day's low of 15,442 - down 520 points from its previous close due to heavy selling in realty, metal, power and oil & gas stocks. All the sectoral indices were in red today.
The Sensex finally ended with a loss of 448 points at 15,515.
The market breadth was negative - out of 2,719 stocks traded, 1,967 declined, 676 advanced and 76 were unchanged today.
The NSE Nifty ended with a loss 130 points at 4,586.
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INDEX SHAKERS...
Ambuja Cements plunged 5.5% to Rs 87, while Tata Steel tumbled 5.4% to Rs 816.
HDFC Bank slipped 5.2% to Rs 1,216. Maruti and BHEL dipped 5% each at Rs 746 and Rs 1,471, respectively.
Reliance Infrastructure and Tata Motors declined 4.9% each to Rs 1,070 and Rs 542, respectively.
DLF was down 4.7% at Rs 555, and Reliance dropped 4.1% to Rs 2,307.
Jaiprakash Associates, Mahindra & Mahindra and SBI were down around 4% each to Rs 198, Rs 568 and Rs 1,332, respectively.
Bharti Airtel slipped 3.8% to Rs 809. Hindalco and Larsen & Toubro lost around 3% each at Rs 179 and Rs 2,765, respectively.
Satyam slipped 2.8% to Rs 486. Infosys declined 2.7% to Rs 1,870.
HDFC and ACC shed 2.6% each at Rs 2,395 and Rs 633, respectively.
Reliance Communications was trading at Rs 540 - down 2.3%.
TCS, Ranbaxy and Hindustan Unilever were the other major losers.
...AND THE MOVERS
ONGC was the only gainer among the Sensex stocks, up 5.3% to Rs 887.
MOST ACTIVE COUNTERS
Anu's Laboratories led the value chart with a turnover of Rs 452.66 crore followed by Gokul Refoils (Rs 438 crore), ONGC (Rs 313.48 crore), Reliance (Rs 308.80 crore) and Reliance Petroleum (Rs 268.68 crore).
Gokul Refoils topped the volume chart with trades of around 2.11 crore shares followed by IFCI (1.78 crore), Anu's Laboratories (1.65 crore), Reliance Petroleum (1.57 crore) and Ispat Industries (1.39 crore).