Sensex Slips Over 400 Points On Profit-Booking; Nifty Trading Below 18,300
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Share Market: Equity indices plunged into red on Wednesday in a highly volatile amid profit-booking by investors. The benchmark BSE Sensex fell 410 points or 0.66 per cent to 61,306 in late deals; and the broader NSE Nifty moved 131 points or 0.71 per cent lower to 18,288.
New Delhi: Equity indices plunged into red on Wednesday in a highly volatile amid profit-booking by investors. The benchmark BSE Sensex fell 410 points or 0.66 per cent to 61,306 in late deals; and the broader NSE Nifty moved 131 points or 0.71 per cent lower to 18,288.
Major laggards in the BSE pack included Titan, Hindustan Unilever, PowerGrid, Bajaj Finserv, Mahindra & Mahindra, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Bajaj Auto with their stocks down as much as 2.32 per cent.
Bharti Airtel, SBI, Axis Bank, Bajaj Finance, Tech Mahindra and ICICI Bank were trading in green by rising as much as 3.90 per cent.
On the NSE platform, sub-indices Nifty FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) and Nifty Metal were trading as much as 1.67 per cent lower. Nifty PSU Bank outperformed the index during late deals by rising as much as 1.77 per cent.
