Buoyancy afloat

The north-bound trend remained intact for the second straight session, with the Sensex registering smart gains on buying in heavyweights and other sectoral stocks. After opening with sharp gains of over 153 points over its last close at 9,316, the Sensex remained in the green and rallied past 9,650 to touch an intra-day high of 9,679 in early trades. However, the initial upsurge failed to gather momentum, as the index pared gains and later slowed down on lack of further buying interest. The Sensex ended the session with gains of 492 points at 9,655. The Nifty gained 144 points to close at 2,928.

The market breadth was positive. Of the 2,527 stocks traded on the BSE, 1,530 stocks advanced, whereas 876 stocks declined. Hundred and twenty one stocks ended unchanged. On sectoral front, BSE Realty surged 12.56% followed by BSE Metal (up 8.38%), BSE Oil & Gas (up 6.97%) and BSE CG (up 4.51%). The remaining indices ended with gains of 0.79% to 4% each.


Among the gainers in heavyweights, DLF advanced 18.93% at Rs262.65, Mahindra & Mahindra rose 15.47% at Rs286.65, Grasim Industries flared up 13.66% at Rs1,098.50, Tata Steel scaled up 10.92% at Rs217.40, Reliance Communications added 10.24% at Rs228.25, ACC jumped 9.92% at Rs476.40 and Wipro gained 9.80% at Rs261.65. Only Ranbaxy dropped (1.08% at Rs210.75) for the day.

Over 3.21 crore shares of Unitech changed hands on the BSE followed by Suzlon Energy (2.04 crore shares), HDIL (1.47 crore shares), GVK Power & Infrastructure (1.46 crore shares) and DLF (1.14 crore shares).