Continued buoyancy in the market, backed by robust FII inflows, saw the Sensex open (yet again!) with a positive gap of 32 points at 13,501. The index touched a new all-time intra-day high of 13,588 by mid-noon deals. Profit-taking, mainly in Infosys, saw the index pare gains and slip to 13,459 - down 129 points from the day's high.The Sensex, however, bounced back into positive zone soon, and finished with a gain of 37 points at 13,506.The index has thus gained 3.3% (433 points) in the last six trading sessions.While the BSE Bankex rallied over 2% to 7212 today, the Auto index slipped 1% to 5272. Most other sectoral indices finished on a flat note.The market breadth was fairly negative - out of 2,610 stocks traded, 1,536 declined, 1,003 advanced and the rest were unchanged today.INDEX MOVERS & SHAKERSACC soared 6.7% (Rs 68) to Rs 1,087. Gujarat Ambuja was up 1% to Rs 139 after the Holcim block deal for five crore shares at around Rs 139 per share. Grasim, after touching an intra-day high of Rs 2,764, pared gains and ended marginally higher (Rs 9) at Rs 2,718.HDFC Bank zoomed over 6% (Rs 69) to Rs 1,146. SBI rallied nearly 4% to Rs 1,220. ICICI Bank was up Rs 7 at Rs 888. The stock had touched a intra-day high of Rs 925.Satyam surged 2.5% to Rs 438. HDFC moved up 1.6% to Rs 1,556. Wipro was up 1.2% at Rs 553.Infosys, which slipped to a low of Rs 2,154, saw some last-minute buying, but closed with a loss of over 1% (Rs 29) at Rs 2,194.Ranbaxy dropped 1.5% to Rs 397. ONGC, Maruti, Reliance Communications, Tata Motors, Hero Honda and Hindalco declined over 1% each.VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERSGujarat Ambuja topped both the value and volume chart today. The stock witnessed a turnover of Rs 708.25 crore followed by Tech Mahindra (Rs 306.15 crore), Mahindra Gesco (Rs 297.30 crore), Hindustan Zinc (Rs 192 crore) and ACC (Rs 176 crore).A total of 5.17 crore shares changed hands at the Gujarat Ambuja counter followed by IDFC (1.10 crore), Silverline (67.25 lakh), IFCI (48.45 lakh) and Nandan Exim (40.20 lakh).
