Sensex regains 17K; realty, metals lead

The Sensex today opened at 16,893 mirroring strong cues from the Asian markets. The index soon crossed the psychological 17,000 mark and continued to exhibit firm trend throughout the day.Firm opening of the European bourses and higher US index futures also helped the Sensex towards the end. The index finally ended at 17,032, up 184 points or 1%. The NSE Nifty ended at 5,058, up 59 points.

All the sectoral indices barring the IT index ended in green.Realty and auto indices were led the upmove, up 3% each. 

The market breadth was fairly positive, out of 2,864 shares traded, 1,758 advanced and 1,017 declined on the BSE.

INDEX MOVERS...

Among the BSE-30 stocks, Maruti Suzuki zoomed 5.5% to Rs 1,560. DLF added 4.5% at Rs 385 and Hero Honda was up 4% at Rs 1,639, respectively.

Sterlite, Reliance Communications, Tata Steel, Hindalco and Tata Motors advanced 2-4% each at Rs 867, Rs 179, Rs 535, Rs 132 and Rs 634, respectively.

The other prominent gainers were Hindustan Unilever, Grasim Industries, SBI, Mahindra & Mahindra, Sun Pharma, Reliance and ONGC 

...AND THE LOSERS

The IT stocks were the only losers for the day, TCS, slipped 0.5% to Rs 666 and Infosys was down 0.3%.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Suzlon topped the value chart on the BSE with a turnover of Rs 154.66 crore.It was followed by SBI (Rs 117.61 crore), Reliance (Rs 111.80 crore), DLF (Rs 106 crore) and Tata Steel (Rs 105.05 crore).

Cals Refineries led the volume chart on the BSE with trades of 23.23 million shares. It was followed by Suzlon (21.80 million), Mahindra Satyam (8.44 million), Spicejet (7.76 million) and Unitech (6.70 million) shares on the BSE.