The Sensex ended in the negative terrain at 13400, down 104 points, owing to continued selling pressure in select frontliners, gloomy global cues and monsoon worries.
The BSE index today opened in the red at 13,405, down 99 points from its previous close, owing to negative global cues after a report showed that the index of US consumer sentiment soured to its weakest level since March. The Sensex recovered partially in the second half of the day but could only manage to touch a high of 13,462, still down 42 points from its previous close.
The BSE Consumer Durables index tumbled 5.7% at 2,611. The Metal and Realty indices declined nearly 4% each.
The market breadth was extremely negative - out of 2,632 shares, 2,009 declined, only 567 advanced.
INDEX LOSERS...
Reliance Infrastructure tumbled over 6% to Rs 966.
Jaiprakash Associates plunged nearly 5% to Rs 177.
Tata Steel dropped over 4% to Rs 338.
Maruti Suzuki, Hero Honda and Hindalco declined nearly 3.5% each to Rs 1,066, Rs 1,398 and Rs 70, respectively.
DLF, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Larsen & Toubro, Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel and Tata Power were down 2-3% each.
Reliance slipped 1.7% to Rs 1,748
...AND THE GAINERS
Sun Pharma advanced 2.5% to Rs 1,149.
Infosys and Grasim gained over 2% each to Rs 1,767 and Rs 2,451, respectively.
Sterlite and Wipro added 1.5% each to Rs 584 and Rs 389, respectively.
VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS
Educomp Solutions topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 228.99 crore. It was followed by Reliance (Rs 191.45 crore), Axis Bank ( Rs 173.51 crore), Unitech (Rs 159.84 crore) and Reliance Capital (Rs 150.95 crore).
Unitech led the volume chart with trades of 24.6 million shares. It was followed by Suzlon (15.6 million), Reliance Natural Resources (9.5 million), HDFC(7.4 million) and Indiabulls Real Estate (4.7 million).
