As comrades shoot off their mouths
Markets go on Red Alert
One lakh crore wiped out
Mumbai: The BSE Sensex went down by 329.60 points (6.10 per cent) to close at 5069.87, while the NSE's S&P CNX Nifty went down by 135.1 points (7.87 per cent) at 1582.40. This is NSEs sharpest fall since its inception. According to brokers over Rs 1,00,000 crore of market capitalisation was wiped out today, which may be the highest ever in a single day.

Market Gainers
Tanu HealthCare (12.9 per cent), Petron Engineering (2.5 per cent), Cummins India (1.4 per cent), Gati, Britannia Industries, Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer HealthCare, Sun Pharma, Ranbaxy Labs

Market Losers
Reliance Industries (6.8 per cent) and ICICI Bank (7 per cent), Infosys Technologies (2.3 per cent), ITC (3.5 per cent), ONGC (12.5 per cent), State Bank of India (14.8 per cent), Hindustan Petroluem (12.8 per cent), Bharti Tele-Ventures (10.3 per cent), BHEL (14.8 per cent), MTNL (13.1 per cent), Syndicate Bank (21.1 per cent), Bank of Baroda (19.6 per cent), Allahabad Bank (17.4 per cent), IndusInd Bank (15.6 per cent), Biocon (3.9 per cent), Balmer Lawrie (20 per cent), Chennai Petroleum (19.9 per cent), Rashtriya Chemicals (19.8 per cent)

Market Counters
BSE 30
Figures in Rupees / Gain (+) Loss (-)
ACC at 266.80 -14.15
Bajaj Auto at 913.05 -19.95
Bharti Televentures at 143.60 -16.40
BHEL at 479.05 -83.20
Cipla at 248.10 -13.90
Dr Reddy at 839.25 -5.50
GACL at 310.95 -12.20
Grasim at 1,081.15 -73.60
HDFC at 540.55 -46.90
HDFC Bank at 360.65 -11.00
Hero Honda at 442.65 -8.45
Hindalco at 889.70 -54.85
HLL at 141.50 -0.05
HPCL at 331.35 -48.70
ICICI Bank at 265.00 -19.80
Infosys at 5,081.80 -117.55
ITC at 914.50 -33.00
L&T at 513.35 -30.50
MTNL at 115.45 -17.40
ONGC at 722.55 -102.95
Ranbaxy at 1,034.75 -1.60
Reliance at 476.80 -34.60
Satyam at 311.65 -0.55
SBI at 514.85 -89.20
Tata Motors at 412.95 -33.25
Tata Power at 323.25 -37.95
TISCO at 288.60 -29.40
Wipro at 1,545.70 -58.00
Zee Tele at 113.35 -10.55

Others
Mercator Lines fell 5 per cent to Rs 257.1
Dewan Housing Finance up two per cent to Rs 28.3
Sun Pharma closed at Rs 727.75
Britannia Ind up at Rs 580
Colgate-Palmolive up at Rs 125.90
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PSU and banking stocks dumped
Mumbai: FIIS are said to have been net sellers of around $250 million-$300 million (around Rs 1,100 crore-Rs 1,300 crore) of equity. This is almost double Thursday's figure of $137 million (Rs 604 crore). They were reported to have sold heavily in PSUs and banking stocks.
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