Market ends in green: Auto, IT, bank stocks gain

30 August 2007

The markets ended in green backed by strong global cues. The uptrend was well supported by auto, banking, steel, telecom and IT stocks. Realty, aluminium and oil & gas stocks were under pressure. Sensex closed above 15,100 mark and Nifty closed above 4,400 mark. BSE Smallcap outperformed and was up nearly 1%.

Top gainers on the indices are Siemens, Hero Honda, GSK, Sterlite, HDFC Bank, Reliance Communication, VSNL, Tata Motors, Mah and Mah, Ranbaxy Labs.

Top losers on the indices are BPCL, SBI, Cipla, NTPC, Nalco, GAIL, Zee Entertainment, Hindalco, Reliance Energy and Grasim.

Axis Bank, Puravankara Projects and HDIL were the most actively traded counters today.

Nifty September Future discount has once again slipped to 54.55 points at 4413.

Sensex was up 128.70 points or 0.86% at 15121.74, and the Nifty up 53.00 points or 1.22% at 4412.30.