RBI's credit policy review brings bears on Dalal Street

(posted under - BSE live, Nifty closing 27/10) - Indian Stock markets and major indices like SENSEX and NSE's NIFTY closed in deep red after news from RBI came. The notable thing about today's close is that all the sectors were down at closing today. The Reserve Bank of India increased provisioning for commercial real estate loans to 1 percent from 0.4 percent for standard assets.
Market breadth was negative with 2274 declines and mere 453 advances.

NSE's Nifty closed at 4841.40, down 129.50 points or 2.61 per cent. The NIFTY index touched a low of 4829.50 and high of 4970.55 during intraday trading.

The 30 share benchmark index Sensex closed at 16330.60 and was down by 409.90 points which is a whopping 2.45 percent down. The BSE's SENSEX touched a low of 16311.50 and high of 16699.09 during intraday trading.

The closing of Sectoral indices is as follows :

BSE Realty Index closed down 6.11 percent.
BSE Metal Index fell 5.76 percent.
BSE Bankex Index was down by 3.97 percent.