The Sensex slipped into the red soon after initial gains, hitting a fresh day's low in mid-morning trade. The market recouped its entire losses later. The Sensex hit a fresh intraday low in afternoon trade as Asian stocks fell. The key benchmark indices surged to the day's highs at the fag end of trade after global rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) revised India's rating outlook to stable from negative. S&P affirmed the 'BBB-' long-term and 'A-3' short-term sovereign credit ratings on India. Capital goods, FMCG stocks fell. Auto stocks were mixed. Banking and metal stocks rose. Stocks were volatile as traders rolled over positions in the derivatives segment from the March 2010 series to the April 2010 series, ahead of the expiry of the near-month March 2010 contracts on Thursday, 25 March 2010. Both the Sensex and Nifty gained 0.2% and 0.3%, respectively, while the BSE Mid-cap and Small-cap indices also gained 0.4% and 0.1%, respectively.

Market closed positive for fourth consecutive after a side way movement, There was huge buying seen in Telecom stocks like Bharati up by 3.65%, RCom up by 1.98% and Idea up by 2.08%. Market made an intraday High of 5270 and Low of 5237 and finally closed at 5263. The benchmark index Sensex closed at 17,519 up 59 points after making a high of 17,601 and low of 17,502. Among the broader indices - the BSE Midcap Index was up by 0.7% and Smallcap was up .37%. Today's market breadth was positive and Total Turnover was 93,932Cr which was . IT stocks were down today, TCS was down .82% , Financial Technologies was down .56%,Wipro was down .38% and Infosys Technologies was down by .35%.