New Delhi: The markets ended marginally in green amid a rangebound session. Sensex ended flat but Nifty closed with modest gains eyeing the 4,300 mark.
In terms of cues, Asia ended mixed with a negative bias and even Europe opened weak.
Telecom, capital goods and oil refinery stocks are trading in green. The rupee is trading weak against the dollar at 40.95, giving boost to metal stocks but IT index ended in red. Also select banking, cement, oil marketing and pharma stocks ended lower.
New listings like Time Technoplast, Netflier, Icra did well in today's market.
Sensex was up 13.36 points or 0.09% at 14501.08, and the Nifty up 26.30 points or 0.62 per cent at 4285.7.
About 1461 shares have advanced, 1098 shares declined, and 83 shares are unchanged.
The BSE Midcap Index ended at 6,417.90 up 33 points or 0.53 per cent.
The BSE Smallcap Index ended at 7,604.72 up 41 points or 0.54 per cent.
The BSE Capital Goods Index was up one per cent at 11,949.91. Suzlon Energy, Crompton Greave, Bharat Bijlee, Praj Industries, Areva T&D closed higher.
The BSE Health Care Index was flat at 3,794.00. Novartis India, Cadila Health, Wyeth, Aventis Pharma, Apollo Hospital closed higher.
The BSE Auto Index closed closed up 0.5 per cent at 4,788.09. Cummins, MICO, Hind Motors, Exide Industrie, Tata Motors closed in the green.
The BSE Metal Index closed at 10,770.83 up 0.2 per cent. Shree Precoated, Tata Steel, Jindal Saw, SAIL advanced.
The BSE FMCG Index gained 0.4 per cent at 1,819.24. United Spirits, United Brewerie, Godrej Consumer, GlaxoSmith Con closed higher.
BSE Oil and Gas Index closed higher at 7,658.34 up 0.6 per cent. Reliance Petro, ONGC, GAIL, Petronet LNG, Reliance Natura ended in green.
The BSE IT Index lost 0.3 per cent at 4,799.99. Wipro, Tech Mahindra, Infosys closed lower.
The BSE Bankex was down 0.4 per cent at 7,802.33. Canara Bank, UTI Bank, Federal Bank, Union Bank ended weak.
(With momeycontrol.com inputs)
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