Mumbai: The markets opened strong and were trading at the higher level for most part of the day. Profit booking set in during the final hour of trade and the markets reversed their direction and slipped in the red.
The Sensex closed at 11,502.62 down nine points and the Nifty closed flat at 3,357 up three points.
The BSE Small Cap Index closed at 5,826.39 up eight points or 0.14 per cent.
The BSE Midcap Index ended at 4,813.23, up six points or 0.12 per cent.
The BSE sectoral closed in red, but the metal stocks held out their gains and the index closed in the positive.
The consumer durables index gained 2.5 per cent at 3,060.73. Whirlpool and Blue Star were top gainers.
The BSE Metal Index gained 1.5 per cent at 8,213.66. Sterlite Ind, JSW Steel, Welspun Guj, SAILand Gujarat NRE Coke witnessed buying interest.
The BSE Bankex was closed flat at 5,193.13. Kotak Mahindra, Bank of India, UTI Bank, Bank of Baroda moved downwards.
The BSE IT Index lost 0.5 per cent at 5,441.51. Hexaware Tech, Infosys, Satyam, HCL Tech closed in red.
The BSE Oil and Gas Index lost 0.6 per cent at 5,451.95. HPCL, BPCL, IOC, Kochi Refin and Chennai Petro declined on the bourses.
The BSE Capital Goods Index was lost 0.54 per cent at 7,695.52. Crompton Greave, Greaves Cotton, Aban LoydChiles, Carborundum and BHEL closed lower.
The BSE FMCG Index lost 0.2 per cent 1,984.37. Shaw Wallace, McDowell, HLL, Nestle and Britannia closed in negative terrain.
The BSE Auto Index lost 0.6 per cent at 4,951.08. Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Apollo Tyres, Bajaj Auto, M&M slipped on the bourses
The BSE Health Care Index was down 1 per cent at 3,518.47. Wyeth, Apollo Hospital, GlaxoSmithKline, Wockhardt and Sterling Bio closed lower.
The NSE cash turnover was at Rs 6285.15 crore and the NSE F&O turnover was at Rs 20,593.56 crore. The BSE cash turnover was Rs 3,064.61 crore. Total market wide turnover was at Rs 29,943.32 crore.
Markets Today:
- Markets off day's high on profit booking
- Sensex down 9 points at 11502, Nifty down 1.4 points at 3364
- Metals and Consumer durable stocks end firm
- BSE Metal index up 1.5 per cent, Sterlite up 3.5 per cent
- BSE Healthcare index down one per cent
- Ranbaxy & DR Reddys down over 2 per cent each
- Select midcap stocks rally, Educomp hits 20 per cent upper circuit
- BSE Midcap index end flat at 4297
- Total Turnnover at Rs 29943.32 cr
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