Anupam Singhi, COO of William O'Neil India, said, "The Nifty started in the green and soon nosedived into the negative territory to end at 9,126.85. The index lost 0.36 per cent, or 33.20 points, in today's session. The index traded in a range of 9,116.30-9,167.60."
The Nifty had gained by 75.75 points, or 0.83 per cent, in the previous two trading days.
On the sectoral view, Nifty media, pharma and PSU bank indices ended the day with decent gains. However, decline of the Nifty IT, private bank, realty and bank indices gave markets a negative finish.
However, Auro Pharma went up 2.52 per cent, Grasim 2.02 per cent, Eicher Motors 1.65 pct and BHEL 1.33 per cent.
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A total of 863 declined, 795 advanced while 97 remained unchanged. Total securities that hit their price bands were 128.
Turnover in the cash segment fell to Rs 22,650.34 crore, from Rs 31,890.88 crore last Friday.
A total of 13,008.07 lakh shares changed hands in 7,785,112 trades. The market capitalisation of NSE stood at Rs 1,18,08,093 crore.
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