Sensex sheds 150 points towards close

New Delhi: Stock markets opened with modest gain on Tuesday but could not maintain the lead and slipped within half an hour of trade. Trade remained weak throughout the day on account of selling pressure witnessed across the board.

Consumer durable followed by auto, capital good and banking stocks were the worst hit sectors.

Sensex went down 149.52 points to close at 14,253.38, and the Nifty down 57.60 points or 1.38 per cent at 41,06.95. The Midcap Index ended down 1.23 per cent or 73 points at 5,877.90 and Smallcap Index closed in red at 7,214.73 down 102.20 points or 1.40 per cent

Auto index was down 84 points or 1.5 per cent at 5,537.42. Hind Motors, Punj Tractors, Cummins, Ashok Leyland and Apollo Tyres were top losers.

Bankex plummets 102.86 points or 1.41 per cent at 7,186.24. Karnataka Bank, Vijaya Bank, Kotak Mahindra, IOB and UTI Bank plunges most.

Cap good was down 142.69 points or 1.48 per cent at 9,503.10. Alstom Projects, Aban Offshore, Crompton Greave, ABB and Bharat Elec were the hardest hit stocks.

FMCG ended down 10 points at 1,880.83. Nestle, HLL, Dabur India, Shaw Wallace and Colgate were the top losers.

Health Care closed down 5 pointa at 3,798.19. Glenmark, Sterling Bio, Aventis Pharma, Cadila Health, FDC and Divis Labs declined most.

IT ended in red 41 points at 5,533.83. Moser Baer, Mphasis, HCL Info, Wipro and Patni Computer declined most.

Metal index was down 41.67 points at 8,865. SAIL, Guj NRE Coke, Hind Zinc and NALCO were top losers.

Oil & gas ended down 49.98 points or 0.74 per cent at 6,683.43. ONGC, Reliance Natural, Petronet LNG and MRPL were the worst hit.

Today's Turnover:

The NSE cash turnover was at Rs 7792.17 crore and the NSE F&O turnover was at Rs 39292.32 crore. The BSE cash turnover was Rs 3873.5 crore. Total market wide turnover was at Rs 50957.99 crore.

F&O

• Turnover at Rs 39292.32 Cr
• RPL adds 79 lakh shares in OI ;Rollover at 62 per cent
• Bajaj Hindustan adds 8 lakh shares in OI;rollover at 53 per cent
• IFCI adds 53 lakh shares in OI ;rollover at 27 per cent
• Balrampur chini adds 9 lakh shares in OI ;rollover at 54 per cent
• Essar oil adds 21 lakh shares in OI ;rollover at 50 per cent
• Arvind mills adds 24 lakh shares in OI ;rollover at 36 per cent
• Ranbaxy adds 7 lakh shares in OI ;rollover at 34 per cent
• Sesa goa adds 3 lakh shares in OI ;rollover at 16 per cent
• Ril adds 29 lakh shares in OI ;rollover at 29 per cent

With inputs from moneycontrol.com