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| Sensex pares gains on profit booking |
| BS Reporter / Mumbai Jun 05, 2009, 16:04 IST |
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 The Sensex today opened 31 points higher at 15,040 and soon slipped into the negative zone at 14,993.
However, the markets rebounded and continued to move sideways. Positive cues from the European markets helped the index rally to the day's high of 15,257, up 264 points from day's low.
The index gave up its early gains on profit booking in FMGC and realty stocks and finally ended at 15,103, up 95 points.
The FMCG and the Realty indices were down over 2% each at 2,219 and 4,030, respectively.
The Capital Goods and the IT indices moved up around 3% each at 12,922 and 3,154, respectively.
The market breadth was positive, out of 2,891 shares traded, 1,522 advanced and 1,314 declined today.
INDEX MOVERS...
Grasim soared 6% to 2,511. Tata Motors and BHEL advanced 5.3% each to Rs 389 and Rs 2,287, respectively.
Larsen & Toubro gained 4.3% at Rs 1,519.
Infosys and Tata Power added nearly 4% each at Rs 1,690 and Rs 1,081, respectively.
Sun Pharma, ACC, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and TCS were up 2-3% each.
Sterlite, Bharti Airtel and ONGC were the other major gainers.
...AND THE LOSERS
ITC tumbled 5.4% to Rs 191. Reliance Infrastructures and SBI slipped over 3% each to Rs 1,227 and Rs 1,818, respectively.
DLF, Reliance, Tata Steel and NTPC declined 1-2% each.
OTHER PROMINENT GAINERS...
Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals zoomed 24% at Rs 93.65. BEML, Bhushan Steel, MMTC, Aban Offshore, JP Hydropower, Petronet LNG and Dr Reddy's gained 6-13% each.
...AND THE LOSERS
HDIL slumped 5.6% to Rs 304.25. PTC India, Essar Oil, IFCI, Tech Mahindra, Indiabulls Real Estate, Ultratech Cement, Godrej Industries, GVK Power, Hindustan Constructions, Suzlon, Welspun-Gujarat Stahl Rohren and Max India declined 4-5.4% each.
VALUE &VOLUME TOPPERS
JP Hydropower topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 312.14 crore. It was followed by Suzlon (Rs 308.33 crore), Unitech (Rs 308.01 crore), Reliance Capital (Rs 281.67 crore) and Reliance (Rs 219.30 crore).
Cals Refineries topped the volumes chart with trades of 86.12 million shares. It was followed by JP Hydropower (32 million), Unitech (30.50 million), Satyam Computer (26.57 million) and Ispat (22.82 million).
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