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Indian stock market daily closing report (August 25, 2010)

Contributed by Nirmal Bang

By Nirmal Bang

Market saw selling pressure in Heavy stocks to drag the market below 5500 mark at 5462. We saw selling in Sectors like Realty, Auto & Metal. We saw selling in stocks like BF Utilities was down by 10.29%, UB Holding was down by 5.35%, Religare was down by 4.48% & Rallies was down by 3.91%. Market closed at 5462 down by 43 points, before making an intraday High of 5506 and Low of 5453. The benchmark Index Sensex closed at 18,180 down by 132 points before making an intraday high of 18,312 & low of 18,156. Among the broader indices - The BSE Midcap Index was down by 1.49% and Small cap was down by 1.42% Today's market breadth was negative and Total Turnover was at 1,60,688Cr.

In Realty Space, IBull Realty was down by 3.78%, Unitech was down 3.60%, HDIL was down by 3.48% & DLF was down by 3.35%.

In Auto space, Hero Honda was down by 2.32%, Tata Motors was down by 1.82%, Maruti was down by 1.14% & M&M was down by .31%.

In Metal space, Tata Steel was down by 3.22%, Hindalco was down by 2.97%, Sail was down by 2.27% & Sese Goa was down by .94%.

In Bank space, ICICI Bank was down by 1.68%, AXIS Bank was down by .89%, SBI was down by .82% & HDFC Bank was down by .63%.

Among the Sensex gainers were Sterlite was up by 1.05%, ONGC was up by .39%, ITC was up by .31% & TCS was up by .24%.