Strong pull-back; Sensex ends up 615pts

The Sensex rallied to a high of 13,998, and finally ended with a smart gain of 615 points (4.6%) at 13,964.

The BSE Realty index soared 6% to 4,901, and the Bankex surged almost 5% to 6,183.

Advances beat declines in 4:1 ratio - out of 2,725 stocks traded, 2,129 advanced, 527 declined and 69 were unchanged today.

The NSE Nifty moved up 169 points to settle at 4,157.

INDEX MOVERS...

Reliance Infrastructure zoomed 10.7% to Rs 835, and Jaiprakash Associates soared 10% to Rs 173.

Tata Motors rallied 7.5% to Rs 405. ITC surged 6.8% to Rs 184.

Reliance Communications and TCS advanced around 6% each to Rs 441 and Rs 876, respectively. HDFC Bank added 5.7% to Rs 1,059.

BHEL, Reliance, Bharti and Infosys gained 5% each at Rs 1,575, Rs 2,080, Rs 747 and Rs 1,821, respectively.

Grasim, DLF, ICICI Bank and Larsen & Toubro, also, have moved up nearly 5% each to Rs 1,752, Rs 450, Rs 622 and Rs 2,513, respectively.

NTPC has added 4.3% to Rs 168. HDFC and Tata Steel were up over 4% each at Rs 2,095 and Rs 678, respectively.

Mahindra & Mahindra, Ambuja Cements, Maruti and Wipro gained around 3.5% each at Rs 534, Rs 77, Rs 589 and Rs 434, respectively.

Satyam, Hindustan Unilever and SBI were up around 3% each at Rs 482, Rs 216 and Rs 1,239, respectively.

MOST ACTIVE COUNTERS

Reliance Capital topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 255.20 crore followed by Reliance (Rs 255 crore), Reliance Infrastructure (Rs 198.30 crore), Reliance Natural Resources (Rs 183.35 crore) and Mundra Port (Rs 128.35 crore).

Reliance Natural Resources led the volume chart with trades of around 2.58 crore shares followed by IFCI (1.87 crore), Idea Cellular (1.26 crore), IndusInd Bank (1.05 crore) and Ispat Industries (94 lakh).