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Mumbai: A key index of Indian equities markets ended a lacklustre trading session 20 points down Monday, compared to its previous close. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened lower at 16,185.26 points, closed at 16,214.19 points, down 50.11 points or 0.5 percent. The chart showing the 52 week performance of Sensex is on the left.
The Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) also ended in negative at 4,821.2 points, down 0.17 percent from the last close. However, broader market indices made gains, with the BSE midcap index ending 0.25 percent higher and the BSE smallcap index up 0.56 percent. The market breadth was marginally positive - out of 2,855 stocks, 1,473 advanced, while 1,309 declined. Tata Steel led the combined value chart on both the BSE and the NSE with a turnover of Rs.798.6 crore. It was followed by HDIL (Rs.674.35 crore), DLF (Rs.627.7 crore), Aban Offshore (Rs.625 crore) and Reliance (Rs.617.11 crore).IFCI topped the combined volume chart with trades of over 46.87 million shares. It was followed by Unitech (42.88 million), NHPC (46.66 million), Ispat (39.15 million) and Suzlon (36.48 million).