The Sensex on Wednesday opened 41 points higher at 15,168 following positive cues from the Asian markets. The index touched a day's high of 15,581 - up 454 points from its previous close.
In the last trading session, the index witnessed profit booking in realty stocks (down 1.1%) and finally ended at 15,467, up 340 points. The NSE Nifty ended at 4,655, up 104 points.
The BSE Power and Capital Goods were up 3.5% each at 3,069 and 13,467, respectively.
The breadth turned negative towards the end, out of 2,831 shares traded, 1,218 advanced, 1,553 declined and 60 were unchanged on the BSE.
INDEX MOVERS. . .
Tata Power zoomed 6.4% to Rs 1,214 and Reliance Infrastrutures soared 6% to Rs 1,218.
HDFC Bank, Ranbaxy, ACC and Reliance Communications advanced around 5.5% to Rs 1,494, Rs 298, Rs 897 and Rs 350, respectively.
BHEL added 4.6% to Rs 2,353.
Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hindalco, Hindustan Unilever, Grasim, NTPC, ONGC, Bharti Airtel, ITC, Reliance, wipro, Maruti AND ICICI Bank 1-4% each.
...AND THE SHAKERS
Tata Motors and DLF slipped 2% to Rs 361 and Rs 395, respectively.
VALUE & VOLUME TOPPER
Tech Mahindra topped the volumes chart with turnover of Rs 307.14 crore.
It was followed by Unitech (Rs 237.43 crore), Suzlon (Rs 212.39 crore), Reliance (Rs 207.31 crore) and Aban Offshore (Rs 203.58 crore).
Unitech topped the volumes chart with trades of 26.10 million. It was followed by Reliance Natural Resources (16.91 million), Suzlon ( 16.86 million), Ispat ( 15 million) and JP Hydropwer (14.64 million).
