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Sensex ends down 180 pts
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 20:30 IST
Mumbai: The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 78 points at 19,339, and touched a high of 19,375 in morning deals.
A late bout of selling saw the index plunge to a low of 19,009 - an intra-day swing of 366 points.
The Sensex finally closed with a loss of 182 points (0.94 percent) at 19,080.
The market breadth was bearish - out of 2,930 scrips traded, 1,669 declined and 1,227 moved up today.
Hindustan Unilever dropped over 3 percent to Rs 211; L&T slipped nearly 3 percent to Rs 3,968, HDFC and ICICI Bank declined over 2 percent to Rs 2,812 and Rs 1,141, respectively.Reliance was down 1.8 percent at Rs 2,729 were some of the losers today.
Cipla was firm right through the day, and finished with a gain of nearly 4 percent at Rs 216, ITC was up 2 percent at Rs 198, NTPC and Ranbaxy closed with gains of over 1 percent each at Rs 232 and Rs 410, respectively were the companies who scored in the market today.