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Sensex ends down 71 points, Hindalco gains 7% March 27, 2008 16:15 IST The index, however, recovered and rebouned into the positive zone in mid-noon trades and touched a high of 16,111 - up 242 points from the day's low. The Sensex, however, could not hold gains and slipped back into red to finish with a loss of 71 points at 16,016. The market breadth was marginally positive - out of 2,774 stocks traded, 1,490 advanced, 1,223 declined and 61 were unchanged on Thursday. The NSE Nifty ended almost unchanged at 4,830 - up a point. Index shakers Tata Motors [Get Quote] dropped 3.5% to close at Rs 655 as analysts raised fears of a possible slowdown in earnings following the company's buy of Jaguar Land Rover brands from Ford for $2.3 billion. Satyam [Get Quote] plunged 4.4% to Rs 395. SBI [Get Quote] and Infosys [Get Quote] tumbled 3.7% each to Rs 1,650 and Rs 1,441, respectively. TCS [Get Quote] shed 3% at Rs 853. Ranbaxy [Get Quote] and Larsen & Toubro slipped 2.7% each to Rs 436 and Rs 2,964, respectively. ICICI Bank [Get Quote], Reliance and Maruti [Get Quote] were down 1% each at Rs 835, Rs 2,275 and Rs 837, respectively. And the movers Hindalco [Get Quote] soared 6.6% to Rs 173. Hindustan Unilever surged over 4% to Rs 244. Cipla rallied nearly 3% to Rs 212. Bharti Airtel [Get Quote], ITC and DLF advanced around 2.5% each to Rs 825, Rs 200 and Rs 674, respectively. Jaiprakash Associates [Get Quote] and Reliance Communications [Get Quote] moved up 2.3% each to Rs 231 and Rs 538, respectively. BHEL gained 1.5% at Rs 1,986, and Mahindra & Mahindra was up 1% at Rs 686. Value and volume toppers HDFC [Get Quote] topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 909 crore followed by Reliance Capital [Get Quote] (Rs 298.50 crore), Reliance (Rs 246 crore), GSS America (Rs 205.80 crore) and Nagarjuna Construction (Rs 144 crore). Powered by  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
