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Mumbai: It was a disappointing day in the market for frontliners, but buying was seen in midcaps and smallcap stocks. Energy stocks saw good buying and oil and gas stocks are the star performers.

The cues were not very encouraging as most of the Asia closed lower. Profit booking was witnessed in the FMCG, IT and auto stocks. Buying was also seen in select banking and metal stocks.

BPCL, NTPC, BHEL, HDFC Bank, Reliance, SBI, Reliance Communication, Hero Honda and Tata Power were among the top gainers on the indices. Sensex ended 99.40 points or 0.48% down at 20728.05, but the Nifty was up 6.70 points or 0.11% at 6206.80.

About 1623 shares have advanced, 1323 shares declined, and 26 shares are unchanged. The BSE Midcap Index ended at 9,534.70 up 1 per cent. The BSE Smallcap Index ended at 12,871.65 up 1.4 per cent.

The BSE Bankex was up 0.1 per cent at 12,491.70. Axis, Karnataka Bank, Bank of Baroda, IOB closed in green. The BSE Capital Goods Index closed at 19,527.40 up 0.2 per cent. Astra Microwave, Reliance Infra, Jyoti Structure, Triveni Engineering closed higher.

The BSE Auto Index closed at 5,364.12 down 1 per cent. Maruti Suzuki, Amtek Auto, Punj Tractors, Mah and Mah, Bajaj Auto closed lower. The BSE Metal Index closed at 18,839.41 down 0.4 per cent. Shree Precoated, NALCO, Jindal Saw, Tata Steel, Sesa Goa, SAIL closed lower.

The BSE FMCG Index closed up 0.6 per cent at 2,409.99. United Brewerie, Bata India, United Spirits, Colgate, Godrej Consumer ended higher. BSE Oil and Gas Index closed at 14,143.40 up 2.3 per cent. BPCL, HPCL, IOC, Reliance Natura, Reliance, RPL ended higher.

The BSE IT Index was at 3,993.25 down 3 per cent. Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Satyam, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech closed lower. The NSE cash turnover was at Rs 17765.37 crore and the NSE F&O turnover was at Rs 53245.37 crore. The BSE cash turnover was Rs 7215.97 crore. Total market wide turnover was at Rs 78226.71 crore.

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