Indian benchmark indices close lower on Wednesday
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IBNS): The Indian market chose to remain cautious on the eve of Union Budget 2018, according to media reports.
The indices saw weak trading throughout Wednesday and even though they managed to cut their losses towards the closing hours, they could not manage to enter positive territory.
BSE Sensex was down 68.71 points at 35965.02 while NSE Nifty was down 22.00 points at 11027.70.
Some of the key stocks that gained were Bharti Infratel, Kotak Mahindra, Reliance, HDFC, IndusInd Bank, Tata Motors, Tech Mahindra, BPCL and HPCL while Tata Steel, Coal India, Dr Reddy's Labs, Sun Pharma, UPL, CIPLA and HUL were some of the key stocks that declined.
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