Sensex ends 360 pts up as bulls return to the ring: Sify

Sensex ends 360 pts up as bulls return to the ring

Save for a brief while this morning and for a few minutes before noon, the market remained in the positive territory today thanks to some strong buying in blue chip stocks.
Despite high oil prices and hardening interest rates, the market opened on a positive note today. Capital goods, realty and power stocks surged higher on strong buying support. Stocks from other sectors too joined the rally. However, ahead of release of inflation data, the market turned a bit shaky and gave up almost all its gains in late morning trade.

The crucial meeting of the Left parties that had the withdrawal of support to the ruling coalition as a main agenda had a role to play in forcing the investors on to a defensive mood around noon.
However, neither the Left meet nor the surge in inflation (inflation rate rose to 11.63% in the 12 months to June 21, 2008, above the previous week's annual rise of 11.42%) could halt the market which started gaining ground in the positive territory this afternoon. Even as the Left meeting was on, leaders from the Samajwadi Party met the Prime Minister and expressed their support for the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal.

So strong and sustained were the buying enquiries at the blue chip counters that the benchmark BSE index Sensex gained in strength and vaulted to a high of 13,509.74 today.

The BSE barometer, which had tumbled to a low of 13,027.79 in morning trde, ended the day at 13,454 with a thumping gain of 359.89 points or 2.75%. The Nifty, which swung in a range of around 137 points - it hit a low of 3896.40 and a high of 4033.50 today - closed with a gain of 90.25 points or 2.3% at 4016.

Realty stock DLF, which had tumbled sharply yesterday after a heady rise in the previous session, bounced back into the reckoning once again. With a host of other realty stocks too surging higher on sustained buying support, the Realty barometer shot up by 7.8% today.
Capital goods, power, bank and oil stocks also finished on a positive note. While the Capital Goods index ended stronger by 6.79%, the Power and Bankex ended up by 6.1% and 3.08% respectively. The consumer durables barometer, BSE CD, moved up by 3.15%.

Select PSU, auto and IT stocks posted impressive gains. Pharma and metal stocks ended on a subdued note. Thanks to frenzied buying, several stocks from midcap and smallcap segments too advanced to higher levels and signed off on a high note.

Reliance Communications flared up by 12.5% and ended as the top gainer in the Sensex. Jaiprakash Associates closed with a big gain of 10.65%. DLF ended 8.6% up at Rs 414.65.
BHEL notched up a gain of 7.45%. Reliance Infrastructure climbed up 7.25%. Larsen & Toubro jumped 6.55% to Rs 2379.85. HDFC posted a gain of 6.2%. Ranbaxy Laboratories and ICICI Bank moved up by 4.75% and 4.7% respectively.
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