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Indian stock market daily closing report (August 20, 2010)

Contributed by Nirmal Bang

By Nirmal Bang

Market opened negative and after a volatile session it managed to close above 5500 mark at 5531. We saw buying in Sectors like Realty, Oil & Gas & Metal. We saw buying in stocks like Varun Ind. was up by 10.33%, Jubilant Food was up by 9.17, Gammon India was up by 7.79% & Finolex was up by 5.43%. Market closed at 5531 down by 10 points, before making an intraday High of 5547 and Low of 5513. The benchmark Index Sensex closed at 18,402 down by 53 points before making an intraday high of 18,464 & low of 18,361. Among the broader indices - The BSE Midcap Index was up by .12% and Small cap was up by .12% Today's market breadth was negative and Total Turnover was at 1,12,413Cr.

In Realty Space, DLF was up by 3.55%, DB Realty was up 3.37%, Unitech was up by 1.55% & HDIL was up by 1.23%.

In Oil & Gas counter, BPCL was up by 3.24%, HPCL was up by 1.52%, Reliance was up by 1.16% & ONGC was down by .74%.

In Metal space, JSW Steel was up by .78%, Jindal Steel was up by .62%, Sesa Goa was up by .02% & Tata Steel was down by .35%.

In FMCG space, HUL was down by 1.74%, ITC was down by 1.36%, Godrej was down by .90% & Dabur was up by .17%.

Among the Sensex gainers were DLF was up by 3.55%, L&T was up by 2.81%, Cipla was up by 1.90% & Reliance was up by 1.16%.

Among the Sensex losers were Tata Motors was down by 2.41%, ICICI Bank was down by 1.78%, Wipro was down by 1.77% & HUL was down by 1.74%.