Sensex loses 87 pts at close

NIFTY
5906.85
-5.25
SENSEX
19698.36
-86.53

The market opened on a weak note this morning, and, despite recovering swiftly and staging a smart rally, remained sluggish right till the end of the session as participants chose to stay away from a majority of blue chip stocks due to lack of triggers. Finally, following a fairly strong round of selling in some front line stocks, the benchmark indices Sensex and the Nifty closed in the red today.

Weak global markets rendered the mood somewhat negative. Fresh concerns over US credit worries and surge in inflation weighed down the sentiment to a notable extent.
While the Sensex, which plunged to 19,472.51, losing more than 300 points in early trade, ended the day with a loss of 86.53 points or 0.44% at 19,698.36, the Nifty closed with a small loss of 0.09% or 5.25 points at 5906.82. In intra-day trades today, the Nifty touched a low of 5817.40 and a high of 5948.05. The Sensex hit a high of 19,838.03 in early afternoon trade.

Oil stocks had another fine run in the positive territory. Select FMCG stocks, led by heavyweight ITC, posted smart gains. Auto and PSU sectors witnessed selective buying. Consumer durables stocks, which had missed out on the rally on Wednesday, were among the notable gainers today.

Information technology and capital goods stocks eased to lower levels on selling pressure. Though a few bank stocks firmed up to higher levels, not much buying was seen in that space today. Some realty stocks gained smart ground. Even as a number of large cap stocks struggled to hold on at higher levels, several stocks from midcap and smallcap segments rallied higher on strong buying interest.

ITC ended stronger by as much as 8.2% today. Grasim Industries closed with a big gain of 7.5%. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (3.4%), Mahindra & Mahindra (1.9%), Maruti Suzuki (1.35%) and Bharti Airtel (1.3%) also closed with smart gains.

State Bank of India gained 0.8%. Hindustan Unilever moved up by a little over half a per cent. Wipro, Cipla, ONGC and Tata Consultancy Services posted modest gains while Ambuja Cements, Reliance Industries and Bajaj Auto ended marginally higher than their previous closing levels.
Hindalco (down 5.5%) was the biggest loser from the Sensex today. Larsen & Toubro (down 2.85%), Ranbaxy Laboratories (down 2.8%), ICICI Bank (down 2.3%), Reliance Communications (down 2.3%), Tata Steel (down 2%), Infosys Technologies (down 1.75%), Reliance Energy (down 1.5%) and BHEL (down 1.3%) also declined sharply.

HDFC, which moved in a tight band today, closed with a loss of 0.7%. HDFC Bank also went down by around the same margin as HDFC. ACC lost 0.45%. Tata Motors and Satyam Computer Services ended with very small losses. Nalco, HCL Technologies, Zee Entertainment, Sun Pharmaceuticals and SAIL were among the major losers in the Nifty index.

Hindustan Petroleum (6.05%), VSNL (5.45%), ABB (2.3%), MTNL (2.15%), BPCL (1.85%), Hero Honda (1.8%), Suzlon Energy (1.7%), Punjab National Bank (1.55%) and GlaxoSmithKline Pharma (1.05%) closed with sharp gains. Hinduja TMT vaulted 28.65% to Rs 556.10. Chambal Fertilizers zoomed 28.3%. Essar Oil closed with a hefty gain of 21.6%. Mirc Electronics gained 16.1%. Escorts spurted 14.65%.

HTMT Global, Ballarpur Industries, National Fertilizers, Fertilizers & Chemicals, Nirma and Chennai Petroleum Corporation moved up by 9% - 11%. Lanco Infratech, FDC, Finolex Industries, Gujarat Narmada, Jindal Saw, Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers, Indian Oil Corporation, Tata Tea, India Cements, Kotak Bank, Cummins India and Tata Chemicals also surged higher.

Midcap stocks Nagarjuna Fertilizers, S Kumar's Nationwide, Bombay Rayon Fashions, Dabur Pharma, Eicher Motors, Berger Paints, Kirloskar Oil Engines, Simplex Infrastructure, Binani Cements, SpiceJet and Development Credit Bank closed on a high note.

Though the indices ended in the red, the market breadth remained positive again thanks to hectic buying in several midcap and smallcap stocks. Out of 2865 stocks traded on BSE today, 1909 stocks closed on a winning note. 912 stocks ended with losses and 44 stocks finished at their previous closing levels.

Sensex loses 87 pts at close



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Victor Menezes

Victor J. Menezes (May 14, 1949 - ) is an engineer and banker, who acts as a top official in international financial organizations. He is originally from India and received his degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1970. He received a Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1972. In the same year, he joined Citicorp in Corporate Banking. Later, he was posted in "practically every continent" -- as one bio-sketch put it. Displaying exemplary banking skills throughout, he rose to the post of Chief Financial Officer in 1995.

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S&P 500


The S&P 500 is an index containing the stocks of 500 Large-Cap corporations, most of which are American. The index is the most notable of the many indices owned and maintained by Standard & Poor's, a division of McGraw-Hill. S&P 500 is used in reference not only to the index but also to the 500 actual companies whose stocks are included in the index.
The S&P 500 index forms part of the broader S&P 1500 and S&P Global 1200 stock market indices.
All of the stocks in the index are those of large publicly held companies and trade on the two largest US stock markets, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. After the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 is the most widely watched index of large-cap US stocks. It is considered to be a bellwether for the US economy and is a component of the Index of Leading Indicators. It is often quoted using the symbol SPX or INX, and may be prefixed with a caret (^) or with a dollar sign ($).

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NASDAQ

The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock market. It is the largest electronic screen-based equity securities trading market in the United States. With approximately 3,200 companies, it lists more companies and on average trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market.[1]
It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), who divested themselves of it in a series of sales in 2000 and 2001. It is owned and operated by The NASDAQ Stock Market, the stock of which was listed on its own stock exchange in 2002, and is monitored by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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India's 40 Richest : Forbes

India's 40 Richest : Forbes

These are heady times for India's richest. Thanks to a roaring Bombay stock market whose benchmark index was up 53% in the past year, and a strong rupee that appreciated 12%, for the first time all India rich listers are billionaires. In aggregate, their wealth surged to $351 billion, a bit more than double last year's $170 billion, making India's 40 by far the wealthiest such group of all in Asia. The four richest Indians are worth an astonishing $180 billion. Together the foursome are worth more than the forty richest Chinese combined. More...

THE LIST :
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Top 10 out of 40

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Tulsi Tanti


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Sensex ends 144 pts down; Oil stocks flare up

NSE
5912.10 -25.80
BSE
19784.89 -144.17

After a volatile and weak start, the Sensex emerged into the positive territory this morning but faltered within the next few minutes as information technology and bank stocks tumbled sharply on selling pressure. Profit taking after yesterday's historic surge and weak global markets rendered the several large cap stocks highly subdued right through the session today.
While the Sensex ended the session with a loss of 144.17 points or 0.72% at 19,784.89, the Nifty closed with a loss of 0.43% or 25.80 points at 5912.10.

Thanks to hectic buying almost right till the end of the session, a number of oil stocks closed with impressive gains. A host of FMCG, fertilizer and realty stocks too finished with handsome gains. Power stocks met with profit taking and dropped down to lower levels. Reliance Energy (down 3.45%), Wipro (down 3.1%), Infosys Technologies (down 3.1%), HDFC Bank (down 2.85%), NTPC (down 2.85%), ICICI Bank (down 2.25%), BHEL (down 1.75%), State Bank of India (down 1.6%), Grasim Industries (down 1.3%), HDFC (down 1.3%) and Tata Motors (down 1.15%) ended with sharp losses.

Pharma majors Cipla, Ranbaxy Laboratories and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories eased by 1.15%, 0.99% and 0.8% respectively. Hindalco lost 0.9%. Reliance Industries and Hindustan Unilever weakened by around half a per cent. Satyam Computer Services, Tata Consultancy Services and Maruti Suzuki ended with marginal losses. ACC, Bajaj Auto and Reliance Communications ended flat.

Bharti Airtel, which zoomed to Rs 922 in intra-day trades, ended with a smart gain of 4.75% at Rs 900.10. ITC closed 3.55% up at Rs 189.65. Mahindra & Mahindra, ONGC, Tata Steel, Ambuja Cements and Larsen & Toubro closed with marginal gains. BPCL and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation vaulted 17.85% and 15.2% respectively. Siemens, VSNL, MTNL, Hero Honda, Suzlon Energy, Zee Entertainment, Unitech, Nalco and SAIL were among the other prominent gainers from the Nifty index.

Tata Power eased by 4.85%. ABB, Punjab National Bank, GAIL India, Reliance Petroleum, Sun Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline Pharma also ended on a weak note. Essar Oil (30.5%) was among the most sought after stocks today. Bongaigaon Refinery shot up by 30.15%. Mangalore Refineries & Petrochemicals (22.1%), Chennai Petroleum Corporation (11.85%) and Indian Oil Corporation (10.25%) also moved up strong volumes today.

Among midcap stocks, Motilal Oswal, Essar Steel, Essar Shipping, Hotel Leelaventure, Networth Financial Services, Wire & Wireless, Madras Aluminium, IndusInd Bank, Coromandel Fertilizers, Petronet LNG, Usha Martin, Development Credit Bank, National Fertilizers, Shree Precoated Steels, Mahindra Gesco, Balaji Telefilms, India Infoline and ABG Shipyard were among the top gainers today.

Smallcap stocks Manali Petro, Chemplas Sanmar, Andhra Petro, South Asian Pipes, Gabriel, DCW, Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers, DS Kulkarni Developers, Eveready Industries, SREI Infrastructure, Munjal Showa, Indraprastha Medicals, Gujarat Ambuja Exports, Dolphin Offshore, Suraj Diamond, Ciba Specialities and Khaitan Electricals flared up to higher levels.
Though it was a highly negative close for the indices, the market breath remained strong thanks to sustained buying in several midcap and smallcap stocks. Out of 2849 stocks traded on BSE today, 1808 stocks closed with gains. 988 stocks ended in the negative territory and 53 stocks settled at their previous closing levels.

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Pradeep Sindhu

Pradeep Sindhu (1953, Mumbai, India) is the serving Chief Technical Officer of Juniper Networks Inc.
Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California. The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware on March 1998 in and went public on the 25th of June, 1999.
Sindhu was instrumental in the architecture, design, and development of the Juniper M40 while running the company.
Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARC for 11 years. Sindhu worked on design tools for VLSI and high-speed interconnects for shared-memory multiprocessors.

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Fortune magazine is an American business magazine founded by Henry Luce in 1930. His publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner, the world's largest media conglomerate, before it was acquired by AOL in 2000.[1] Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Forbes, which is also published bi-weekly, and BusinessWeek. Fortune is currently published by the company's Time Inc. subsidiary. The magazine is especially known for its annual features ranking companies by revenue.
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Fortune 500
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The Fortune 500 is a ranking of the top 500 American public corporations as measured by gross revenue, although eligible companies are any for which revenues are publicly available (which is a larger universe than "public companies", as the term is commonly understood, meaning "companies having common stock that trades on a stock exchange"). Fortune magazine compiles and publishes the list annually.The Fortune 100 is a frequently used term used to reference the top 100 firms in this same list.The Fortune 1000 refers to the top 1000 firms ranked according to the same methodology.

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Forbes
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Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published bi-weekly, and BusinessWeek. Today the magazine is known for its lists, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and its list of billionaires.

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