Sensex sheds 153 points; Metal, realty stocks major losers

Mumbai, Feb 3:

Concerns of FIIs pulling out in the near term saw the Nifty and the Sensex trading down by over 0.8 per cent at 12.45 p.m. on Monday. Weak global cues also aided the negative trend.

The Nifty was at 6,036, down 54 points, and the Sensex at 20,334, down 180 points.

Volatility index, India Vix, was at 17.98, up 6.89 per cent.

Barring healthcare and consumer durables, all other BSE sectoral indices were trading in the red. Among them, metal, realty, banking and TECk indices fell the most by 2.2 per cent, 1.27 per cent, 1.01 per cent and 0.94 per cent, respectively.

On the other hand, healthcare index was up 0.77 per cent and consumer durables 0.48 per cent.

GAIL, Dr Reddy's, Hero MotoCorp, Sun Pharma and Axis Bank were the top five Sensex gainers, while the top five losers were Hindalco, Bharti Airtel, Tata Steel, Tata Motors and ICICI Bank.

Asian stocks were down, with the regional benchmark gauge extending its steepest monthly decline since May, after a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing growth added to worries that the global economic recovery is faltering.

Japan's Nikkei index plunged 1.98 per cent, Singapore's Strait Times Index fell 1.11 per cent, China's Shanghai Index shed 0.82 per cent and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index was down 0.04 per cent.

(This article was published on February 3, 2014)

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