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The Indian equity indices ended lower for the second consecutive session on September 20 with Nifty falling below 19,900 amid selling in heavyweights and across the sectors, barring power stocks.
At close, the Sensex was down 796 points or 1.18 percent at 66,800.84, and the Nifty was down 231.90 points or 1.15 percent at 19,901.40.
After a gap-down start, market remained under selling pressure and extended the losses as the day progress, to end near day's low.
BSE Sensex and Nifty50 indices touched the day's low of 66,728.14 and 19,878.85, respectively.
Today's fall eroded investors' wealth by Rs 2.25 lakh crore, as the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies slipped to Rs 320.75 lakh crore from Rs 323 lakh crore in the previous session.
Today's fall eroded investors' wealth by Rs 2.25 lakh crore, as the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies slipped to Rs 320.75 lakh crore from Rs 323 lakh crore in the previous session.
Biggest losers on the Nifty were HDFC Bank, JSW Steel, Reliance Industries, BPCL and SBI Life Insurance, while gainers included Power Grid Corporation, Coal India, ONGC, Sun Pharma and Eicher Motors.
Amongst sectors, except power, all other sectoral indices ended in the red with bank, metal and realty down one percent each.
The BSE midcap index shed 0.30 percent and Smallcap index declined 0.5 percent.
A long build-up was seen in AU Small Finance Bank, Polycab India and Dr Lal PathLabs, while a short build-up was seen in HDFC Bank, JK Cement and Zydus Lifesciences.
Among individual stocks, a volume spike of more than 300 percent was seen in Hindustan Copper, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services and India Cements.
Nearly 200 stocks touched their 52-week high on the BSE, including GPT Infraprojects, Axis Bank, Thomas Scott, Indusind Bank, Karnataka Bank, Dhampur Sugar Mills, Union Bank Of India, Tata Consultancy Services, Coal India. Click to View Full List