The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 26 points at 9,093, which turned out to be the low for the day. Sustained buying saw the index touch a new, all-time high of 9,176 - an intra-day rally of 109 points from the last weekend close of 9,067. The Sensex shed gains towards the closing bell, and finally closed with a gain of 66 points (0.73%) at 9,134.All the sectoral indices moved up today. The BSE Metal Index zoomed 2% (118 points) to 6,162. The BSE PSU Index advanced 1.9% (96 points) to 5,276. The BSE Consumer Durables Index moved up 1.4% (45 points) to 3,345. The BSE Bankex was up 1% (48 points) to 4,903.Declines were marginally ahead of advances - out of 2,568 scrips traded, 1,275 declined, 1,224 advanced and 69 were unchanged today.ONGC advanced 3.4% (Rs 38) to Rs 1,165. SBI was up Rs 10 at Rs 908. While HLL was down Rs 3 at Rs 186, Reliance was down a rupee at Rs 863.Infosys gained 1.8% (Rs 53) to Rs 2,926. TCS declined over 2% (Rs 37) to Rs 1,649. While Wipro dropped Rs 5 to Rs 437, Satyam was down Rs 2 at Rs 671.Tata Motors was firm right through the session, and closed with a gain of 2.7% (Rs 15) at Rs 591. Bajaj was up Rs 33 at Rs 2,115, and Maruti was up Rs 5 at Rs 649. L&T added 2.3% (Rs 39) to Rs 1,746. Tata Steel moved up over 2% (Rs 7) to Rs 363. ICICI Bank moved up over 2% (Rs 11) to Rs 561. HDFC was up 1.7% (Rs 19) at Rs 1,130. Hindalco, ITC, Cipla and Ranbaxy also finished with gains.BHEL declined Rs 17 to Rs 1,424. Bharti, Reliance Energy, ACC, Grasim, Dr. Reddy's and HDFC Bank also declined.Bombay Dyeing zoomed over 10% (Rs 34) to Rs 362. JSW gained 6% to Rs 226. Orchid Chemicals gained over 3% to Rs 238. PSU scrips logged gains today. Nalco gained 5% to Rs 220. Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals also advanced 5% to Rs 50. SAIL moved up 3.6% to Rs 53. IOC was up 3% at Rs 522. RCF, BEML, Bharat Electronics, Chennai Petro, Concor, Dredging Corporation, Engineers India, HPCL and Shipping Corporation also finished with gains.Kotak Bank declined over 4% to Rs 227. Syngenta, Balaji Telefilms, Exide and Hexware declined.Reliance was the most active counter with a turnover of Rs 483 crore followed by Suzlon (Rs 217 crore), Titan (Rs 206 crore), SBI (Rs 82 crore) and VSNL (Rs 76 crore).
