SENSEX closes over 250 points down | NIFTY follows

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Profit booking pulled the major indian stock indices down at closing and through out the trading sessions today. With Bombay stock exchange's 30 component SENSEX and National stock exchange's broader index NIFTY also closing down because of profit booking. The Realty stocks were the worst hit and metals and capital goods followed.

Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex closed at 20315.32, down 227.76 points. It hit an intraday low of 20272.77 and high of 20581.29 during intraday trading. Sectoral indices also showed same behavior as Sensex and closed lower today with BSE Midcap Index closing at 0.74 percent and BSE Smallcap Index closing down by almost 0.92 percent.

The broader index NIFTy was no different and closed at 6118, down 68.45 points.
market breadth was negative with 1878 declines against 1372 advances.