Sensex trips 63 pts to 10,680.23

Mumbai, Jul 28: The Sensex today is down by 63 points to 10,680.23 in volatile trading, on account of heavy profit-booking.

The Sensex closed at 10,680.23, as compared to the previous close of 10,741.59.In its intra-day trading, the benchmark index swung 184 points to touch a high of 10,787.65 and a low of 10,603.83 points.

SBI has rallied 4.5% to Rs 798. Dr.Reddy's and Grasim have surged over 2% each to Rs 1,398 and Rs 2,116, respectively.

BHEL, ACC, HDFC Bank and Hero Honda have advanced over 1% each to Rs 1,975, Rs 839, Rs 795 and Rs 699, respectively.

Amongst the sectoral indices on the BSE, the Mid-Cap index surged 1.15 per cent while the Small-Cap index rose 0.71 per cent.

The major gainers on the Sensex were - SBI, up by 4.44 per cent to Rs 796.70, Dr Reddy's was Lab up by 2.56 per cent to Rs 1,402.30, ACC was up by 2.23 per cent to Rs 848.60, Grasim was up by 2.08 per cent to Rs 2,117.50, Ranbaxy was up by 1.75 per cent to Rs 372.10 and Reliance Communication was up by 0.82 per cent to Rs 258.60.

Besides the losers were - TCS, down by 50.98 per cent to Rs 928.00, Bharti Airtel was down by 2.78 per cent to Rs 384.80, Bajaj Auto was down by 2.76 per cent to Rs 2475.45, Hindalco was down by 1.96 per cent to Rs 162.45, Maruti Udyog was down by 1.64 per cent to Rs 768.40, Reliance Industries was down by 1.84 per cent to Rs 980.15, Tata Motors was down by 1.45 per cent to Rs 727.15 and Infosys was down by 1.46 per cent to Rs 1629.10.

The breadth in the broader market was in favour of 1,367 advances as against 1,011 declines, out of total 2,463 shares that traded on the BSE.

UNI

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