A day after plummeting to its biggest loss since Sep 3, 2013, a benchmark index of Indian equities markets closed Wednesday's trade down 79 points or 0.29 percent.
The barometer index fell by 855 points Tuesday, as global markets plummetted on fears of continued downfall in crude oil prices and speculations over Greece's exit from edurozone.
In Wednesday's trade, heavy selling pressure was seen in metal, banking, information technology (IT), healthcare, technology, entertainment and media (TECK) sectors, while healthy buying was observed in oil and gas, consumer durables and capital goods stocks.
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 26,983.43 points, closed at 26,908.82 points (provisional), down 78.64 points or 0.29 percent from the previous day's close at 26,987.46 points.
The Sensex touched a high of 27,051.60 points and a low of 26,776.12 points in the intra-day trade.
The S&P metal index dropped by 149.85 points, bankex plunged by 136.99 points, IT index was lower by 50.65 points, healthcare index dropped by 26.88 points and TECK index slipped by 20.69 points.
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However, oil and gas index gained by 132.11 points, followed by consumer durables index which was up 25.25 points and capital goods index which closed the day's trade up 20.69 points.
The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) closed the trade down 25.25 points or 0.31 percent at 8,102.10 points.