Profit booking pulls BSE SENSEX | Nifty down today

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Major Indian stock markets closed lower today as investors booked profits from two weeks of rally, Both Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex and National Stock Exchange's Nifty closed in red today.

Sensex closed under the psychological mark of 20000 and NSE's Nifty also closed under 6K mark in today's trading

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The 30 component Sensex closed at 19,940.02, down 61.53 points. The benchmark index touched intra-day low of 19,804.02 and high of 20,105.54 during day trading today.

Analysing sectoral indices today both BSE Midcap Index closed down 0.39 percent and BSE Smallcap Index closed down by 0.23 per cent.

BSE Realty Index closed lower by 1.69 per cent, BSE IT Index also followed by 1.31 percent slip and BSE Oil&Gas Index declined by over 1 percent.

Reliance Communications, DLF, TCS headed the list of todays losers, whereas Maruti Suzuki, HDFC lead the list of those in green.

National Stock Exchange's broader index Nifty also closed under the psychological mark of 6000 and was at 5981.80 at closing and touched high of 6037.40 in intraday trading