Declines beat advances 2:1 ie there were two declining shares for every advancing stock - out of 2,588 stocks traded, 1,716 declined, 802 advanced and the rest were unchanged today.
INDEX MOVERS & SHAKERS
ITC surged 2% to Rs 191. HDFC Bank advanced 1.5% to Rs 853. TCS spurted over 1% to Rs 996.
Tata Steel and Gujarat Ambuja dropped 2% each to Rs 496 and Rs 112, respectively.
Reliance Communications slipped 1.7% to Rs 300. Wipro, Satyam and ACC declined around 1.5% each to Rs 518, Rs 808 and Rs 910, respectively.
Reliance, Tata Motors and BHEL were down 1% each at Rs 1,118, Rs 845, Rs 2,261, respectively.
VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS
Reliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 154.40 crore followed by Tata Steel (Rs 96.83 crore), Zee (Rs 65.50 crore), Reliance Communications (Rs 64.40 crore) and Tech Mahindra (Rs 64.01 crore).
G V Films led the volume chart with trades of around 51 lakh shares followed by SAIL (40.67 lakh), Reliance Petro (32.60 lakh), Mirco Electronics (28.85 lakh) and Zee Tele (23.69 lakh).