Sensex ended down 0.5%

The Sensex ended down 0.5 per cent on Monday. Earlier at the starting of the trade, it opened 79 points lower and continued the negative trend throughout the day. The BSE-30 share index tried to recover during final trading hour, however, could not succeed. It touched an intra day high of 16,252, still down 12 points from the previous close. Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 2.3% to 10,202 today with Toyota Motor Corp and other exporters battered as the dollar hit a 7-month low against the yen.

The market breadth was marginally positive - out of 2,855 stocks, 1,473 advanced, while 1,309 declined. Tata Steel led the combined value chart on both the BSE and the NSE with a turnover of Rs 798.6 crore. It was followed by HDIL (Rs 674.35 crore), DLF (Rs 627.7 crore), Aban Offshore (Rs 625 crore) and Reliance (Rs 617.11 crore). IFCI topped the combined volume chart with trades of over 46.87 million shares. It was followed by Unitech (42.88 million), NHPC (46.66 million), Ispat (39.15 million) and Suzlon (36.48 million).