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Indian stock market daily closing report (August 26, 2010)

Contributed by Nirmal Bang

By Nirmal Bang

The markets consolidated throughout the day amid high volatility and ended with modest gains. All the major sectoral indices ended on a very flat note. The Sensex closed at 18,226 up 46 points and the Nifty was at 5,478 up 15 points after making an intra-day high of 5,489. The Mid cap and Small cap indices ended on a flat note. The breadth of the market was relatively flat and the total turnover recorded at Rs 1,77,575Cr. The Nifty August series ended at 5,477 up by 69 points. The Sept future ended with 6 point discount

In FMCG space while ITC was up by 1.90%, Dabur was up by 0.34% while HUL was down by 1.08%.

In Metal space Hindalco was up by 0.28%, Tatasteel was up by 0.86% while Jswsteel was down by 1.91%, Sterlite Inds. was down by 1.37%, Sesagoa was down by 0.73% & Sail was down by 0.19%.

In Oil & Gas Space BPCL was up by 1.40%, HPCL was up by 1.24%, IOC was up by 0.45%, while Essaroil was down by 1.83%, Reliance Industries was down by 1.47%, Cairn was down by 1.48% & Gail was down by 0.51%.

In Auto space M&M was up by 0.50%, Maruti was up by 0.37% & Tatamotors was down by 0.27%.

Amongst the Senex gainers Crompton Greaves was up by 5.82%, Nestle was up by 3.69%, Powergrid was up by 2.48% & Zee Ent. was up by 2.22%.

Amongst the Sensex losers IBReality was down by 3.06%, Sriram Tr was down by 2.93% & United Pho. was down by 2.63%.