It was a sluggish session for the markets as they ended the first day of the week on an extremely flat note. The cues from Asia also were not positive and even Europe opened in red. Selective buying was seen in telecom, cement, oil and capital good stocks. The midcap index opened firm but slipped later to end flat inline with the benchmark indices. Smallcap index closed in green outperforming the frontline indices. Participation was on the lower side and the breadth did not do a whole lot.

Nifty ended above 4,250 levels defending its position. IT and auto stocks were among the top losers on the indices.

Real Estate, Financial and cement stocks were looking good. Even the newer listing ended in green.

Sensex was up 20.36 points or 0.14% at 14487.72, and the Nifty up 7.35 points or 0.17% at 4259.4.

About 1454 shares have advanced, 1061 shares declined, and 78 shares are unchanged.