Market on Wednesday | Nifty below 25,500, Sensex down 288 pts; metals outperform
The Indian benchmark indices ended lower in a volatile session on July 2, with Nifty below 25,500 amid selling seen in the realty, and financial names. At close, the Sensex was down 287.60 points or 0.34 percent at 83,409.69, and the Nifty was down 88.40 points or 0.35 percent at 25,453.40.
Biggest Nifty losers were Shriram Finance, Bajaj Finserv, IndusInd Bank, HDFC Life, L&T, while gainers were Tata Steel, JSW Steel, UltraTech Cement, Maruti Suzuki, Asian Paints.
Among sectors, metal index was up 1.4 percent, Consumer Durables index added 1 percent, while PSU bank, capital goods, realty, media, power were down 0.4-1.4 percent.
The BSE midcap and smallcap index shed 0.2 percent each.