Market ends strong: Nifty up 8 pc in July series

New Delhi: The markets spiked in the late trade after witnessing sluggish trade for most of the day on triple witching day. The turnover was at record high of 1 lakh crore.

It has been a spectacular July series for the markets. Today on F&O turnover side, market wide turnover hit record high for the third day.

Nifty was up 8 per cent in July series so far; it has been record F&O turnover for last 3 days. Relaince Energy, Sail, L&T, BHEL were among the top series gainers.

In today's trade HDIL was up 7 per cent, Unitech was up 4 per cent. In the Nifty gainers: Ranbaxy Up 9 per cent, Cipla, Tata Power,HCL Tech Up 4 per cent.

Sensex closed at 15,776 up 76 points and the Nifty closed at 4620 up 31 points.

Marketwide Rollover At 77 per cent, Nifty Rollover At 68 per cent. Huge Pick-up In Stock Futures Rollovers, at 78 per cent.

Highest Rollovers In HDIL (94 per cent), Cipla (88 per cent),IFCI (86 per cent),TTML (87 per cent) The BSE Midcap Index ended at 6,790.50 up 35 points or 0.5 per cent.

The BSE Smallcap Index ended at 8,145.86 up 90 points or 1.1 per cent. The BSE Health Care Index was up 1.5 per cent at 3,788.36. Ranbaxy Labs, Wockhardt, Cipla, Wyeth, Opto Circuits closed higher.

The BSE Auto Index closed at 5,096.44 up 1.5 per cent. Maruti Udyog, Mah and Mah, Bajaj Auto, MICO, Escorts, Ashok Leyland surged.

The BSE IT Index gained 2 per cent at 5,001.24. Mphasis, Wipro, TCS, Infosys, Satyam advanced.

BSE Oil and Gas Index gained 1.5 per cent to close at 8,325.19. Reliance, Essar Oil, HPCL, GAIL, ONGC closed in green.

The BSE FMCG Index gained 0.8 per cent at 1,930.08. Dabur India, P and G, Godrej Consumer, HUL, Marico, Colgate were among the gainers.

The BSE Metal Index lost 0.2% to close at 12,139.71 and BSE Capital Goods Index was down 1.4% at 13,247.03.

The BSE Bankex was down 1.2 per cent at 8,185.52. The NSE cash turnover was at Rs 15438.55 crore and the NSE F&O turnover was at Rs 79995.85 crore. The BSE cash turnover was Rs 5727.04 crore. Total market wide turnover was at Rs 101161.44 crore.