The Sensex bounced back and was trading off from day’s low this afternoon.

Buying and selling was witnessed in some of the select stocks. IT, metal, banking, power and realty stocks led the declining charts.

BSE Midcap gained 0.43% and 1.04% respectively.

Among the sectoral indices, BSE IT index hit badly after plunging 3.84% followed by Metal, which declined 2.49%, Power and Bankex lost more than 2% each.

The 30-share index, BSE Sensex, today (Dec 12), belled the day with a loss of 274.59 points, at 9,370.87.

Union government had withdrawn the affidavit from the Bombay High Court, which was filed over RIL-RNRL gas dispute case. The affidavit was filed by the oil ministry, explaining the contractual violations over the sale of Krishna-Godavari basin gas.

Global search engine and web services provider Yahoo! has started the retrenchment drive by terminating the services of 45 people in India. Company spokesperson said that the global financial crisis and slowdown impacted the growth of the company, forcing it to take extreme steps like retrenchment. It would also employ other cost cutting measures to mitigate the losses. It had already hinted in October about the job cuts.

The union government may announce a second financial package to boost the economic growth rate amid global slowdown. It was revealed by the Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Kamal Nath at the sidelines of a function, organized by the Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade.

The growth index of six core industries declined to 3.4 per cent in Octobe,r as compared to 4.6 per cent in the same month last year. The decline is reported, following slow in demand and production cuts imposed by various core sectors. Steel production recently imposed a 20 percent production cut due to the decline   in infrastructure sector as per data released by the commerce and industry ministry.