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Sensex loses 30.65 points

Being the last day settlement at the National Stock Exchange, most of the operators sold heavy-weighted shares to square up their position, which reflected in the share prices at BSE.

Resuming on a weak note, the BSE Sensitive index (30 scrips) opened lower at 3345.18 points, touched day's high of 3351.50, low of 3315.81, before closing at 3317.70 points, showing a net loss of 30.65 points as against the previous close of 3348.35 points.

The BSE-100 National index finished at 1427.92 points losing 13.80 points over yesterday's close of 1441.72 points. The BSE-200 and Dollex indices closed at 317.43 and 136.42 points as compared to last working day's close of 320.32 and 137.70 points respectively.

The marketmen said that the equity prices will fluctuate in the range of 20 to 30 points till the formation of new government at the Centre.

The United states stand on sending troops and ammunition in Iraq has demoralised the sentiment of FIIs from investing in the capital market.

The total turnover on screen-based trading system was Rs 6.4 billion, involving 24.6 million shares. Out of 6914 scrips, a number of total 1508 scrips were traded.

ITC continued with the highest turnover of Rs 1.9 billion, Tata Tea Rs 1 billion, Castrol Rs 707.6 million, SBI Rs 356.9 million, TELCO Rs 288 million, Reliance Rs 261.6 million, Hind Lever Rs 25.33 million, Bajaj Auto Rs 233.1 million, MTNL Rs 152.2 million, ACC Rs 13 million, TISCO Rs 77.6 million, L and T Rs 47.7 million, BHEL Rs 47.6 million, Ponds Rs 40.8 million and Glaxo Rs 36.1 million in the specified counters.

Good transactions were observed at Aptech (Rs 81.1 million), Corporation Bank (Rs 38.7 million), Videsh Sanch (Rs 31 million), LML (Rs 28.6 million), Cummins (Rs 12.3 million), Hind Lever Ch (Rs 12.1 million), India Cement (Rs 11.8 million), Kesoram (Rs 11 million), HDFC Bank (Rs 10.4 million) and Satyam Comp (Rs 10.2 million) at 'B1' counters.

UNI