The Stock Market BSE Index shut up at 17306, down by 387 ponits, The index touched a high and a low of 17,358.18 and 16,990.91 respectively. While Nifty Index shut up at 5211, down by 120 points, the index touched high and low of 5,229.65 and 5,116.45 respectively.

Nifty August 2011 futures closed at 5,220.00, at a premium of 8.75 point over spot closing of 5,211.25, while Nifty September 2011 futures were at 5,237.00 at a premium of 25.75 points over spot closing. The near month August 2011 derivatives contract expires on Thursday, August 25, 2011. Nifty August futures saw addition of 6.76% or 1.59 million (mn) units, taking the total outstanding open interest (OI) to 25.23 mn units.