Market on Friday | Sensex down 466 pts, Nifty below 25,750
Indian benchmark indices ended lower for the second consecutive session on October 31 amid selling seen in the metal, IT and media names. However, buying in PSU Banks helped to limit the losses.
At close, the Sensex was down 465.75 points or 0.55 percent at 83,938.71, and the Nifty was down 155.75 points or 0.60 percent at 25,722.10. BSE Midcap index slipped 0.5% and Smallcap indices down 0.4%.
For the week, the BSE Sensex and Nifty shed 0.3 percent and 0.6 percent respectively, however, for the month of October, both the indices added nearly 4.5 percent each.
Bharat Electonics, Eicher Motors, Shriram Finance, L&T, TCS were among major gainers on the Nifty, while losers were Cipla, Eternal, Max Healthcare, NTPC, Interglobe Aviation.
Among sectors, PSU Bank index rose 1.5%, while power, metal, media shed 1% each and IT, private bank, healthcare index down 0.5% each.