Indian Stock indices closes almost flat - no direction to go

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Most of the major stock indices of India including BSE's Sensex and NSE's Nifty closed slightly up today but witnessed a volatile trade through out the day,
finding it's global peers like Dow Jones Industrials, European markets under stress and getting no direction to follow due to increasing investor consiousness about the predictions of possible stock market correction next month (read complete post).

Thus indian investors are too looking sceptical about the global developments and are playing very safe money till the clouds over possible double dip gets over, FMCG stocks ended in red after investors booked profits from two days of rally in FMCG stocks.

The 30 share BSE's Sensex closed up by just 33 points and was at 18,032.11 at closing today, the index touched the lowed price of 17,960.23 during intraday trading today.

The sectoral indices report card for today is as follows:

Index Name	Last Trade	Change
BSE 30	18,032.11	33.70(0.19%)
AUTO INDEX	8,741.49	31.44 (0.36%)
BANKEX	12,224.60	8.53(0.07%)
BSE - 100	9,662.72	15.12(0.16%)
BSE - 200	2,312.18	3.11 (0.13%)
BSE - 500	7,321.35	10.41(0.14%)
BSE - CAPITAL GOODS	14,631.60	91.22(0.62%)
BSE - CONS. DURABLES	5,803.82	31.34(0.54%)
BSE - FMCG	3,332.30	22.43(0.67%)
BSE - HEALTHCARE	5,549.64	13.24(0.24%)
BSE - INFOTECH	5,373.95	34.41(0.64%)
BSE Mid-Cap	7,640.96	6.25(0.08%)
BSE PUBLIC SECTOR	9,717.32	22.41(0.23%)
BSE Small-Cap	9,636.47	4.48(0.05%)
BSE TECK INDEX	3,374.60	5.66(0.17%)
METAL INDEX	15,128.44	217.62 (1.46%)
OIL & GAS INDEX	10,118.08	25.91 (0.26%)

The broader index National Stock Exchange's Nifty also closed little up today but lacked investor enthusiasm. thua closing a mere 6 points up at 5415 today. The NSE's subindices performance today is as follows:

Index Name	Last Trade	Change
S&P CNX NIFTY	5,415.45	6.75(0.12%)
S&P CNX DEFTY	4,001.20	7.25 (0.18%)
CNX NIFTY Junior	11,828.55	3.15 (0.03%)
S&P CNX 500	4,557.60	6.70 (0.15%)
CNX MIDCAP 200	8,737.45	20.35 (0.23%)
BANK NIFTY	10,747.25	19.80(0.18%)
CNX IT	5,971.25	34.65 (0.58%)