Indian Markets : March 12,2008

Source : NSE India

The market witnessed a spurt in opening trade tracking strong global markets but pared some of its early gains following disappointing index of industrial production figures for January 2008. The market breadth turned negative in late trade, Metal shares declined on profit booking. S&P CNX NIFTY closed at 4872.00 up by 6.10 points

Index futures saw a trading volume of Rs.18954.24 crores arising out of 801054 contracts and Index options saw 231797 contracts getting traded at a notional value of Rs.5843.53 crores. The total turnover of the Futures & Options segment of the Exchange was around Rs.44632.78 crores