Sensex ends down 147 points on poll result worries

The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 246 points at 11,774 on the back of weak cues from the global markets and election outcome worries. The index soon touched a low of 11,696, down 324 points, it recovered and moved up to a high of 11,936. The index, thereafter, was lacklustre and mainly moved sideways for the rest of the day.

The Sensex finally ended down 147 points at 11,873. The NSE Nifty ended at 3,593, down 42 points.

The market breadth was marginally positive - out of 2,554 stocks traded, 1,263 advanced and 1,213 declined. The rest were unchanged.

INDEX SHAKERS...

Sterlite plunged 5.5% to Rs 449. Bharti Airtel shed 4% at Rs 764. Tata Motors and Wipro dropped 3% each to Rs 260 and Rs 364, respectively.

Larsen & Toubro, ONGC, ICICI Bank, Sun Pharma, HDFC, Reliance, BHEL and Tata Power declined 1-2% each.

...AND MOVERS

DLF surged over 7% to Rs 249. Ranbaxy gained 3.5% at Rs 184.

Reliance Infrastructure, Hindustan Unilever and Reliance Communications advanced 1% each.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Reliance topped the value charts with trades of Rs 241.28 crore. It was followed by DLF (Rs 222.49 crore), Reliance Capital (Rs 187.58 crore), HDIL (Rs 180.71 crore) and Reliance Infrastructure (Rs 171.07 crore).

The volume chart was led by Unitech with trades of over 17 million shares. It was followed by Suzlon (13.69 million), Reliance Natural Resources (10.28 million), HDIL (10.04 million) and IDFC (9.79 million).

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