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Market on Tuesday | Markets fall for second day; Nifty below 23,650, Sensex down 555 points
Indian benchmark indices extended their losing streak for the second consecutive session on September 8, with the Nifty hitting a nearly three-month low amid selling pressure in IT, oil & gas and banking stocks.
At close, the Sensex was down 555.23 points or 0.73 percent at 75,577.58, and the Nifty was down 144.05 points or 0.61 percent at 23,635.10.
The broader market outperformed the main indices with Nifty midcap and smallcap indices ended marginally higher.
Top Nifty losers were ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, SBI Life Insurance, L&T, UltraTech Cement, while gainers included Bharat Electronics, ONGC, HUL, Eicher Motors and Adani Ports.
Among sectors, Private Bank index shed 1%, Oil & Gas index down 0.67%, Nifty Bank down 0.5% and IT index shed 0.37%, while Media index added 1.3%, Pharma index rose 0.7% and FMCG index gained 0.35%.
