SENSEX closes down due to profit booking | Nifty follows

A very good morning to all the visitor's to my blog and the closing rates from BSE's SENSEX, NIFTY and indian stock markets is that investor's booked profits from the rally from past few days and booked profits. the benchmark index SENSEX closed 166 pts in red at the end of the trading day, NSE's 50 share index NIFTY also closed in red and was down by over 50 pts today.

Detailed closing rates is as follows :

Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex closed at 16716.53, down 169.90 points.

National Stock Exchange’s Nifty ended at 4970.50, down 49.70 points or 0.99 per cent. The index hit a low of 4957.05 and high of 5030.75 in today’s trade.

Sectoral closing prices :

BSE Realty Index slipped 2.43 per cent, BSE IT Index declined 1.67 per cent and BSE Capital Goods Index tripped 1.57 per cent. BSE Midcap Index was down 1.29 per cent and BSE Smallcap Index moved 1.44 per cent lower.