Sensex slides 334pts; Ranbaxy plunges 8%

The index was in a red for a whole day due to selling pressure on realty, banking, capital goods and power stocks.

The index moved in a range of 207 points between 15,052 (low) and 15,259 (high).

The Sensex finally ended with a loss of 334 points at 15,088.

The markets breadth was negative - out of 2,717 stocks traded, 1,804 declined, 842 advanced and 71 were unchanged today.

The NSE Nifty ended with a loss of 78 points at 4,504.

THE SHAKERS...

Ranbaxy tumbled 7.7% to Rs 552. Reliance Infrastructure plunged 5.7% to Rs 1,012.

BHEL declined over 5% to Rs 1,423. Larsen & Toubro slipped 4.8% at Rs 2,617.

ICICI Bank dropped 4.1% to Rs 753. HDFC Bank lost nearly 4% at Rs 1,121. SBI was down 3.7% at Rs 1,301.

HDFC shed 3.3% at Rs 2,238. ONGC declined 3.1% to Rs 853. DLF was down 2.9% at Rs 478.

Tata Motors slipped 2.7% to Rs 503. Jaiprakash Associates lost 2.6% to Rs 177.

Maruti fell 2.4% to Rs 746. Reliance was trading at Rs 2,245 - down 1.7%.

TCS and Ambuja Cements were down 1.6% each at Rs 886 and Rs 89, respectively.

Grasim, Hindalco and Hindustan Unilever were the other major losers.

...AND THE MOVERS

Mahindra & Mahindra gained 1.7% to Rs 580. Wipro added 0.7% to Rs 488.

Cipla was trading at Rs 217 - up marginally 0.2%.

MOST ACTIVE COUNTERS

Anu Labs led the value chart with a turnover of Rs 375.97 crore followed by Niraj Cements (Rs 337.92 crore), Ranbaxy (Rs 302.82 crore), Reliance Capital (Rs 189.39 crore) and Reliance Petroleum (Rs 129.34 crore).

Niraj Cements topped the volume chart with trades of around 1.77 crore shares followed by Chambal Fertilisers (1.04 crore), Anu Labs (85 lakh), IFCI (82 lakh) and Reliance Petroleum (72 lakh).