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

Contributed by Nirmal Bang

By Nirmal Bang

The markets consolidated throughout the day and ended on a very flat note. Huge buying was seen in Oil & Gas counters while Banking, Metal and It counters ended on flat note. The BSE Sensex closed at 18,409 up 7 points after making a high of 18,454 and the NSE Nifty closed at 5543 up 12 points after hitting an intra-day high of 5,549. The Nifty August futures ended at 9 points discount. The midcap and small cap indices were up by 0.94% and 0.84% respectively. The breadth of the market was strong and the total turnover recorded at Rs.1,17,248 Cr.

In FMCG spaceDabur was up by 0.48% while ITC was down by 2.09% & HUL was down by 0.35%

In Metal space Jswsteel was up by 2.09%, Tatasteel was up by 0.38% while Hindalco was down by 1.42%, Sterlite Inds. was down by 0.66%, Sesagoa was down by 0.18% & Sail was down by 0.16%.

In Oil & Gas Space BPCL was up by 11.24%, HPCL was up by 5.38%, IOC was up by 2.88%, Essaroil was up by 1.06% while Reliance Industries was down by 1.29%, Cairn was down by 0.15% & Gail was down by 0.12%.

In Auto space M&M was up by 1.30%, Maruti was up by 0.19% while Tatamotors was down by 0.18%.

Amongst the Senex gainers BPCL was up by 11.24%, HPCL was up by 5.38%, Adi Bir Nuv was up by 4.36% & Glenmark Pharma was up by 3.86%.

Amongst the Sensex losers Rel Infra was down by 2.36%, Union Bank was down by 2.16%, Itc was down by 2.09% & JP Associate was down by 2.03%.