24/09/2010 00:00 AST

Selling in the Indian market has intensified in late afternoon trade due to further profit booking by investors across the board following the recent spurt.

Also, European markets turned lower, erasing the day's gains, after a key gauge of private sector activity came in lower than expected.

At 02:31 pm. (IST), the BSE Sensex was at 19,795, down 145 points from the last close. It had earlier been as high as 19, 998 and as low as 19,790 after starting at 19,944.

The NSE Nifty is down 36 points at 5,954 after touching a peak of 6,006 and a low of 5,932. It had opened at 5,991.

The BSE Small-Cap index and the BSE Mid-Cap index are down 0.07% and 0.5% respectively.

All BSE sectoral indices are in the red, with Realty, Banking, Oil & Gas, Consumer Durables and Metal stock are down 2%-0.50%. While Power, Capital Goods, Auto, PSU, IT, Pharma and FMCG are down 0.3% -0.1%.

Reliance Capital, Suzlon, Unitech, ICICI Bank, RIL, Bharti Airtel, Axis Bank, Sun Pharma, Cipla, DLF and BHEL among the laggards in the Sensex and the Nifty.

ONGC, Infosys, NTPC, HUL,Ranbaxy, M&M, Tata Steel, Tata Power and IDFC are among the gainers on Sensex and Nifty.


India Infoline

Ticker Price Volume
EMIRATES 58.80 0
JAZADCO 13.40 253,503
OMVS 0.33 3,105
TRAFCO 0.29 0
KHALEEJI 0.08 140,793
ANB 21.52 594,613
ANAAMHOLDING 1.25 14,471,369
Index Closing Change
NIKKEI 225 36,581.76 -251.51 (-0.68%)
DAX 18,699.40 181.01 (0.97%)
S&P 500 5,626.02 30.26 (0.54%)
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