Mumbai: It was completely listless trade on Tuesday as the BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty remained in a narrow range due to lack of global and local cues. Globally every market is closely watching development in Eurozone after Spain woes while locally the market is expecting diesel price hike, but sources said price hike would be possible after vice-president election.
The market rebounded on Tuesday after taking a beating in previous two sessions, which remained in a positive trend for major part of the session. The 30-share BSE benchmark rose 40.73 points to close at 16918.08 and the NSE benchmark gained 10.25 points at 5,128.20.
Global markets too were lacklustre in trade; France's CAC, Germany's DAX and Britain's FTSE were flat while Asian markets closed mixed.
Back home, the Indian rupee was moving around the level of 56 against the US dollar.
Fast moving consumer goods major Hindustan Unilever topped the buying list, rising 7.5 per cent as the company's net profit doubled year-on-year to Rs 1331.2 crore in the quarter ended June 2012.
Oil & gas producers Reliance Industries and ONGC gained around 1 per cent while top telecom operator Bharti Airtel rose 1.4 per cent.
Country's largest lenders State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank moved up just 0.1 per cent-0.4 per cent. Steel producer Sterlite Industries rallied 2.56 per cent.
Top car maker Maruti Suzuki bounced back on short covering, rising 2.34 per cent after losing more than 11 per cent since Thursday due to stoppage of work at its Manesar plant.
However, India's third largest software services exporter Wipro tanked 3 per cent after the company forecast a flattish growth for the second quarter of FY13. Its rivals TCS and Infosys were down 0.4 per cent and 0.77 per cent, respectively.
Healthcare stocks like Sun Pharma, Cipla and Dr Reddy's Labs fell 0.3 per cent-1.3 per cent on profit booking. Capital goods majors Larsen & Toubro and BHEL slipped 1-1.5 per cent.
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