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Weak global cues and profit booking pull down indices

| | May 19, 2016, at 12:48 am
Mumbai, May 18 (IBNS) Following weak global cues and profit booking by investors, Indian benchmark indices ended on a losing note on Wednesday, with Sensex dipping 69 points to close at 25704.61 and Nifty dipping 20.60 points to close at 7870.15.

Sensex, which was down 250 points during intraday trade managed to cut down its losses at the close of business.

Although Punjab National Bank (PNB), which reported its latest March quarter earnings on Wednesday, posted a net loss of 5370 crore -- due to higher provisioning for bad loans -- the biggest quarterly loss in the history of Indian banking, PSU banking stocks fared well. PNB's shares gained three per cent.

Some of the stocks that gained on Wednesday were State Bank of India, ONGC, Lupin, Larsen & Toubro and HCL Tech while Bosch, ZEEL, Bajaj Auto, Hero MotoCorp and Mahindra & Mahindra saw a dip in share prices.
 

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