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Sensex near 17900, Tata Motors, HDFC Bank, DLF up

Tuesday, 13 July 2010


MUMBAI, July 12 (Economic Times): Indian markets were consolidating with a positive bias Monday taking support of global peers. Realty, banks and IT led the upmove while oil&gas, pharma and auto slipped in the red.
At 2:47 pm, Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex was at 17927.44, up 93.90 points or 0.53 per cent. The index touched a high of 18010.07 and low of 17874.95.
National Stock Exchange's Nifty was at 5382.40, up 29.95 points or 0.56 per cent. The index touched a high of 5402.70 and low of 5351.60.
BSE Midcap Index was up 0.23 per cent and BSE Smallcap Index moved 0.60 per cent higher.
Amongst the sectoral indices, BSE Realty Index was up 1.90 per cent and BSE Bankex advanced 1.30 per cent. BSE Oil&gas Index slipped 0.41 per cent and BSE Healthcare Index declined 0.15 per cent.
Tata Motors (2.44 per cent), HDFC Bank (2.15 per cent), DLF (2.13 per cent), ICICI Bank (1.95 per cent) and TCS (1.88 per cent) were amongst the top Sensex gainers.
Reliance Infrastructure (-1.89 per cent), Hero Honda (-1.47 per cent), ONGC (-1.39 per cent), Reliance Communications (-1.03 per cent) and ACC (-1.03 per cent) were under pressure.
Market breadth was positive on the BSE with 750 gainers against 551 losers.
European markets were mostly in the green. FTSE 100 was up 0.72 per cent and DAX moved 0.09 per cent higher. CAC 40 slipped 0.18 per cent.