Sensex closed the day almost flat at 14,870.90 points, just four points down against yesterday’s close after touching the 15,000 mark.
The last time markets were at 15,000 was before the October crisis in September 2008.
Sensex started off with a gap-up opening at 14,902.62 against previous close of 14,874.91, but soon entered into negative territory after profit-booking started.
Among Sensex stocks, 12 were in negative zone and leading the pack of losers was Mahindra & Mahindra which recorded a negative return of 3.85 per cent , and following it was Infosys Technologies with minus 2.16 per cent.
Among the gainers were Hindalco Industries with a 6.09 per cent gain and ITC with 5.76 per cent gain.
BSE MidCap and BSE SmallCap have made a habit of beating its most famous cousins and today too they outperformed the Sensex with a 1.50 per cent gain and 2.11 per cent gain respectively. In fact, all the sectoral indices that were in positive territory outperformed the Sensex.
Among the sectoral indices, BSE Bankex was the biggest loser with returns of minus 1.29 per cent. The other three sectoral indices in negative zone were BSE IT (-1.00%), BSE Oil & Gas (-0.97%) and BSE PSU (0.47%).
Top the charts was BSE FMCG with a 4.19 per cent gain and close to it was BSE Consumer durables with 4.04 per cent return.
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