Sensex regains 17,000 mark

The Sensex opened at 16,984 tracking subdued global cues. The index, however, rebounded into the positive terrain owing to buying in realty, metal and oil & gas stocks. The index managed to regain the psychological 17,000-mark in its intraday sessions.

The Indian bourses broke the rangebound session and soared to a high of 17,237, up 274 points from the day's low.

The Sensex finally ended at 17,227, up 244 points. The NSE Nifty is at 5,148, up 82 points.

The market breadth was positive, out of 2,894 shares traded, 1,865 advanced and 951 declined on the BSE.

The BSE realty index was the top gainer among the sectoral indices, up 3% at 3,893.

INDEX MOVERS...

Bharti Airtel was the major gainer on the BSE, up 4%  at Rs 329. It was followed by DLF ,up 3.5% at Rs 382.

Tata Motors, Hindalco, Reliance, Jaiprakash Associates, Reliance Communications and Tata Steel advanced 2-3% each at Rs 723, Rs 146, Rs 1,080, Rs 231, Rs 180 and Rs 568, respectively.

The other prominent gainers were HDFC Bank, Wipro, HUL, NTPC, Sterlite and Tata Power, up 1-2% each.

...AND THE SHAKERS

SBI and Maruti Suzuki declined below 1% each at Rs 2,307 and Rs 1,569, respectively.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

SBI  topped the value chart on the BSE with a turnover of Rs 146.78 crore. It was followed by JSW Steel (Rs 128.43 crore), Suzlon Energy (Rs 122.37 crore), HDIL (Rs 120.58 crore) and IFCI (Rs 110.66 crore).

IFCI  topped the volume chart with trades of 19.83 million shares. It was followed by Suzlon Energy (14.55 million), Shiva Cement (13.60 million), Unitech (11.35 million) and Satyam Computer (8.40 million).