Thursday, March 10 2005 11:12 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Mumbai: The Sensex today (Mar 10, 2005) opened with overnight weakness, but soon found good support at low level and recovered moderately to 6892.71 points at the opening session on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

The BSE Benchmark 30-share sensitive index opened weak at 6888.73 as against yesterday's (Mar 9, 2005) close of 6892.82 and after dropping to 6849.98, firmed up to a high of 6892.71 and was quoted at 6886.99 at 10:30 hrs (IST), showing a small loss of 5.83 points over yesterday's close.

Local operators and investors continued to book profit in blue chip counters, but heavy buying by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) minimised the losses, a broker said and added "in the month of March FIIs had invested Rs 3119 crore and in the current year Rs 12,188 crore in the market".

During early trade, RIL, REL, ACC, Bajaj Auto, ONGC, Dr Reddy, HDFC, HDFC Bank, Hindalco, Maurti and Tata Motors were quoted firm on good buying.

However, Bharti, Cipla, GACL, Grasim, Hero Honda, HLL, Infosystch, Ranbaxy, Satyam computer, SBI and Wipro were quoted weak on increased selling.