February 10, 2012 5:50 PM

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Sensex loses 82 points at 17,749

Snapping a two-day rally, the Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange lost 82 points, or 0.5 percent, to 17,749, today on disappointing industrial output growth data. The Sensex had risen 59 at the day's high, and lost 204 points at the day's low. The Nifty at the National Stock Exchange slipped 31 points, or 0.6 percent, to 5,382. In the broader market, the BSE Midcap index edged up 0.1 percent but the Smallcap index ended the day with a marginal loss. Market breadth was negatice, on the BSE. Turnover on the BSE's cash segment stood at 3,610 crore rupees.Among the BSE sectoral indices, only the Metal index ended with a gain of 0.6 percent. Among declining indices, the Realty index was the leading loser, declining 0.9%. The Oil and Gas index fell 0.8%; the Bankex and the Healthcare index slid 0.7% each; the Power index lost 0.4%; the Capital GOods, the IT and the Consumer Durables indices shed 0.3% each; the Auto and the FMCG indices fell about 0.2% each and the PSU index remained unchanged. Reliance Industries fell 1.4. Among refing companies, BPCL declined 0.5%, HPCL rose 2.3% after reporting strong quarterly results.Among metal stocks, Hindalco tumbled 4.1%. Tata Steel jumped 5.7% as the company issued an encouraging future outlook after reporting 3rd quarter net loss, yesterday.DLF fell 1.3% ahead of its quarterly results today. Other realty stocks, Indiabulls Real Estate, HDIL and Unitech shed between 1% and 5%.In banking majors, ICICI Bank fell 1.2%, HDFC Bank shed 1.4% and SBI lost 1.1%. IDFC fell 3.5% despite reporting a rise of 18.5% in third quarter consolidated net profit, to 381 crore rupees.In airline counters, SpiceJet, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines fell between 3% and 4.5%.In IT majors, TCS fell 0.2%, and Infosys shed 1.2% but Wipro rose 0.8%.

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