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| Late selling pulls down Sensex |
| BS Reporter / Mumbai Jun 25, 2009, 16:16 IST |
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The Sensex ended at 14,345 down 77 points.
The BSE benchmark index exihibited firm movement till mid noon trades before slipping into the negative zone. The index opened up 54 points at 14,476 and soon touched a high of 14,578. The Sensex slipped to a low of 14,261 down 312 points from the days high.
Among the sectoral indices, the major laggards were Auto, Oil & Gas, PSU and Consumer Durables.The Auto and Oil & Gas indices slipped over 2% each.
The PSU, Power and Consumer Durables shed nearly 1.5% each.
The market breadth was positive - out of 2,703 shares, 1,410 advanced and 1,214 declined.
THE INDEX SHAKERS...
Tata Motors plunged over 5% at Rs 338.
Sun Pharma dropped 3.5% at Rs 1,298.
Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra & Mahindra slipped nearly 3% each at Rs 1,027 and Rs 702, respectively.
BHEL, ONGC and Ranbaxy declined 2.5% each to Rs 2,133, Rs 1,025 and Rs 267, respectively.
ITC, Tata Steel and NTPC were down over 2% each at Rs 194, Rs 398 and Rs 194, respectively.
...AND THE MOVERS
HDFC advanced nearly 3% at RS 2,378.
Jaiprakash Associates, Tata Power and ACC gained nearly 2% each at Rs 218, Rs 1,154 and Rs 782, respectively.
ICICI Bank, Grasim and Larsen & Toubro added 1.5% each at Rs 698, Rs 2,352 and Rs 1,528, respectively.
VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS
Suzlon topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 231.00 crore, followed by Unitech (Rs 224.09 crore), Reliance (Rs 193.16 crore), Educomp Solutions (Rs 192.27 crore) and Tata Steel (Rs 16,689 crore).
The volume chart was led by Unitech with trades of over 27.12 million shares. It was followed by Suzlon (19.37 million), Jaiprakash Hydropower (15.3 million), Cals Refineries (13.16 million) and Reliance Natural Resources (12.42 million).
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