MUMBAI, AUGUST 31: After the uptrend in the last several sessions, pivotals on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) reacted marginally in the absence of fresh support at higher levels and end-account squaring on the National Stock Exchange (NSE).Sensex (BSE sensitive index) which opened up at 4915.80, later moved in a limited range between 4917.41 and 4876.81 before being closing at 4898.21 with a minor loss of 7.68 points as against yesterday's close of 4905.89. The BSE-100 index lost 4.70 points to 2192.94 from 2197.64.Brokers said share prices showed extremely narrow movements with Sensex moving in a limited range due to scattered buying and selling by operators. Speculators were seen shifting their positions to the BSE to square up their holdings on the NSE.Digital Equipments soared to hit an all-time high of Rs 805 on frenzied purchases by investors and bull operators influenced by encouraging working results. Ranbaxy Lab flared up by Rs 9 to Rs 1134.90 on fresh buying.Operators started offloadingstocks after the market regulator SEBI put markets on alert in the wake of pre-poll euphoria. However, operators expect the market to open firm on Wednesday as the undercurrent was still strong and also expect Sensex to touch the magical 5000-mark within a couple of days. Of the 149 specified shares, 94 declined while 51 gained and four remained steady.Meanwhile on the NSE, market sentiment turned weak on the last day of the current settlement on emergence of heavy profit selling and the Nifty nosedived by 10.60 points to end at 1412. The market commenced on a better note, but could not maintain the firm trend as prices started falling towards the fag end and finished with notable losses.Mirroring the general trend, the S&P CNX Nifty started higher at 1422.65 and rose further to 1424.05, before closing at 1412.00, showing a fresh fall of 10.60 over the last close of 1422.60.Reliance remained the most active scrip with a turnover of Rs 186.09 crore of the total volume of business of Rs 2233.22 crore.Reliance spurted by Rs 5.50 to Rs 194.50. However, Zee Telefilms dropped by Rs 95 to Rs 3250, Hindustan Lever by Rs 25 to Rs 2665, ITC by Rs 4.50 to Rs 1027.50, SBI by Rs 2.30 to Rs 242, TELCO by Rs 1.85 to Rs 314.40 and TISCO by Rs 2.95 to Rs 168.15.Cnx nifty junior fell by 26.45 to 2524.40 from 2550.85.S&P Cnx defty dropped by 8.15 to end at 1125.30 from the last close of 1133.45. S&P Cnx 500 declined by 6.30 points to close at 999.65 from 1005.95 and cnx midcap 200 dropped to 907.75 from the previous close of 915.30.In 4,21,357 trades, 1,190.14 lakh shares valued at Rs.2,663.29 changed hands today. Debentures turnover was Rs. 59.67 lakh.Today, 376 securities advanced, 775 declined and 62 heldsteady. 98 securities had hit their price bands.The most actively traded securities were satyam comp witha turnover of Rs. 298.70 cr, ranbaxy Rs. 185.61 cr, Reliance Rs. 182.21 cr, pentsfware Rs. 167.94 cr, digital equp Rs. 138.52 cr and zee tele Rs. 104.47 cr.
