The market held positive zone in range bound trade . Index heavyweight Reliance Industries firmed up. Tata Motors, ONGC soared. Buying continued in small-cap and mid-cap shares which have been rising since the past few days. Market breadth was strong. 15 out of 30 stocks from the Sensex pack were in green. Asian markets, which opened before Indian markets, were in green.
At 13:20 IST, the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 64.20 points or 0.32% to 19589.86. Sensex hit a high of 19,719.76 in early trade. At day's high, Sensex had gained 190.26 points. Sensex hit a low of 19,560.68 in mid-morning trade. At day's low, Sensex had gained 31.18 points for the day.
The broader based S&P; CNX Nifty was up 34.40 points or 0.59% to 5892.75.
The BSE Mid-Cap index was up 1.44% to 9,033.05. The BSE Small-Cap index was up 2.37% to 11,216.53.
Market breadth was strong. On BSE, 2068 stocks advanced, 698 stocks declined and 54 stocks remained unchanged.
Indias largest private sector firm and oil refiner Reliance Industries rose 0.96% to Rs 2891.30, off days low of Rs 2863.
Indias largest private sector bank by assets ICICI Bank fell 0.55% to Rs 1134.45, off days high of Rs 1156.80.
Indias second largest software exporter Infosys Technologies fell 0.96% to Rs 1599, off days high of Rs 1625.
India's top commercial vehicles maker by sales Tata Motors jumped 4.26% to Rs 74.10. Indias top state run oil explorer by market capitalization ONGC gained 3.05% to Rs 1192.
ITC fell 1.87% to Rs 188.45, Tata Steel declined 0.85% to Rs 865.50, Satyam Computers slipped 0.76% to Rs 437.55 and Grasim Industries gave away 0.62% to Rs 3790.
From the mid-cap space, Ispat Industries surged 13.79% to Rs 62.30, Network 18 Fincap soared 13.46% to Rs 522.60, Wire & Wireless India jumped 12.31% to Rs 96.70 and Essar Steel gained 11.45% to Rs 62.30.
Among the small-caps, JBF Industries surged 20% to Rs 194.55, Kajaria Ceramics soared 17.09% to Rs 34.25, FDC galloped 16.72% to Rs 36.30, and Apar Industries climbed 16.44% to Rs 381.
Asian markets were in positive zone today, 5 December 2007. Key indices in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan were up by between 0.30% to 2.58%.
US markets ended lower for second straight day yesterday, 4 December 2007. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 65.8 points to 13248.73 and Nasdaq Composite index slipped 17.3 points at 2619.83.
Oil was steady on Wednesday, 5 December 2007, as the market kept its eyes on Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC's) meeting in Abu Dhabi later in the day and the organisation's big Gulf producers left the door open for a possible output increase. US crude inched up 8 cents to $88.40 a barrel. London Brent crude rose 17 cents to $89.70 a barrel
As per provisional data, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) sold shares worth a net Rs 332.86 crore, while domestic institutional investors (DIIs) were net buyers of shares worth Rs 116.31 crore on Tuesday, 4 December 2007, in cash market.
FIIs were net buyers to the tune of Rs 617.57 crore in the futures & options segment on Tuesday, 4 December 2007. They were net buyers of index futures to the tune of Rs 280.09 crore and index options worth Rs 558.10 crore. They were sellers of stock futures to the tune of Rs 214.48 crore and sold stock options worth Rs 6.15 crore.
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