After Market: Small caps bleed; 400 stocks hit 52-week lows
Sensex settled
151 points, or
0.41 per cent, down at 36,395.03, with 14 stocks up and 17 stocks
down.
The NSE Nifty index
closed the day 55 points, or 0.50 per cent, lower at
10,888.80, with 21 stocks in the green and 29 in the red.
Gainers
Tata Steel by 2.55%,
Cipla IOC, Tata Motors, HCL Tech by 1.5%
Losers
Dr Reddy Labs by 5.57%, M&M, ONCG, Hindalco and Ultra Tech Cement
by 3%
Midcaps and smallcaps suffered more than the heavyweights as
their sectoral indices on the BSE fell up to 1.51 per
cent
Rupee strengthens against US dollar
The Indian rupee on Monday strengthened against the US
dollar ahead of consumer price inflation data due this week.
Rupee was trading
at 71.21 a dollar, up 0.15% from its previous close of 71.31.
The currency
opened at 71.26 a dollar, touching a high 71.14 and a low 71.29.
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