Market registers biggest gain in the year

VICTORY FOR MARKETS: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's win trust motion cheers markets.

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Mumbai: Stock markets gave a rousing applause to the victory for the UPA Government in the trust motion, with a major index ending some 840 points, or nearly six per cent, at the closing bell to record the steepest rise this year.

Sectors that were battered in the past few weeks—banking, realty and power—led the rally. All the sectoral indices on the BSE ended the day in the green.

Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance companies rose on huge volumes.

The market started on a positive note with huge gain and extended its gain by afternoon and ended the day with a hefty gain.

Said Ashok Jainani, research head of Khandelwal Securities: "Stocks jumped following UPA's win in the trust vote and expectations that the government would push ahead with pending reforms."

The 30-share benchmark of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensitive index Sensex, which opened at 14,568.22 points, touched a high of 14,979.90 before closing at 14,942.28 points.

It went up by 838.08 points or 5.94 per cent at the day's close.

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) S&P Nifty, which opened at 4,246.70 points, closed at 4,476.80 points. It went up 236.07 points or 5.58 per cent.

The BSE Midcap index, which closed at 5,615.94 points, went up 269.91 points or 5.05 per cent.

The BSE Smallcap index, which closed at 6,812.64 points, went up 276.22 points or 4.23 per cent.

The market breadth was positive. On the BSE, 2,270 shares advanced, 436 declined and 53 maintained status quo.

Top gainers of the day included Reliance Communications at Rs.525.25, up 12.2 per cent, ICICI bank at Rs.738.25 gained 11.64 per cent, and HDFC at Rs.2,380.20 surged 10.92 per cent.

The top losers of the day included Cipla at Rs.232.50, which lost 2.21 per cent, HUL at Rs.231.05 lost 0.65 per cent, and Ranbaxy Labs at Rs.437.45 lost 3.26 per cent.