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Market@April 17: Day's report

For one more day, a sharp drop on Nasdaq badly affected values in the domestic market. Almost all the software stocks opened at lower circuit, and in most cases the circuit remained throughout the day.
The sentiment also had its impact on non-software stocks and a large number of pivotals too hit the lower circuit, and at the close, showed a substantial fall. ACC, Tisco, and Tata Tea however reported investment buying.
As a result of the down circuit in large number of stocks, the trading volume was extremely low, and touched a 5-month low. Reliance, L&T, ACC, Sterlite, and HLL topped the volume chart accounting for nearly 45 per cent of the total trading volume on the BSE.

Sensex down 293 points at 4879, Nifty down 75 points at 1443.

Sensex

• Open: 4797.95
• High: 5172.13
• Low: 4797.95
• Close: 4879.03

Nifty

• Open: 1518.55
• High: 1518.55
• Low: 1412.45
• Close: 1443.05

• BSE advances: 393
• BSE declines: 1094
• BSE unchanged: 69
• BSE volume: Rs 868 crore
• NSE volume: Rs 1331 crore

Stocks at upper circuit
Thermax, Ind Swift, Elbee Services, Autoride, Panacea Bio, Omax Auto, Sandvik Asia, Kin Honda, Shriram Honda and Mascon Global.

Stocks at lower circuit
L&T, Sterlite, Ranbaxy, ITC, Indo Gulf, HDFC Bank, Dr. Reddy's, Rel Capital, United Phos, M&M, Hindalco, Tata Chem, Bharat Forge, Zee Tele, VSNL, Pfizer, German Remedies, Trent, Infosys, Wipro, Atpech, SSI, Dig Equipment, Global Tele, Pentamedia, DSQ Soft, Silverline, Rolta, NIIT, Himachal Futuristic and HCL Info.

Stocks up over 5 per cent
ACC, Magan Ind, Advani Oerlikon, Rinki Hydro, J&K Bank, Tata SSL, Bank of Punjab, BLB, Triveni Engg. and TIL.

Stocks down over 5 per cent
BSES, HDFC, Tata Elxsi, Cipla, India Cements, Bilt, ICICI Bank, IDBI, Escorts, Essel Packaging, Finolex Cables, Knoll Pharma, Bausch & Lomb, Hinduja Finance, BPCL, Modiluft, Clio Infotech, ITI, Hoechst Marri and Peerless Shipping.

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