Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Sensex bounces back, touches 15K mark

Sensex Heigh

MUMBAI: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex ended touching 15K mark on Monday after kissing around 14, 746 points. In the early trade today, the Sensex opened 39 points lower at 14, 746. During the day, it touched gain and again fell into red zone. But thanks to extensive buying in realty, metal and power stocks that brought back the Sensex to its glory. Finally it was at 15,134 points and the total gain was 250 points.

The positive figure is 1.5 per cent more than its previous close. The NSE Nifty ended at 4459, up 1.5%. The market breadth was positive. Out of 2,714 shares traded, 1,733 (64%) advanced, 900 (33%) declined and 81 (3%) were unchanged on the BSE today.

The midcap and the smallcap indices outperformed the broader market. The indices were up 2% each. All the sectoral indices ended in green. The BSE Capital Goods Index surged around 4% to 12,314. The Realty, metal and Power indices added over 2% each. Auto, bankex, FMCG, oil & gas, healthcare, consumer durables and IT indices were the other sectoral movers.

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