INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: As many as 185 stocks, including Aditya Birla Capital, ACC, Amber Enterprises India, Ambuja Cements and Bannari Amman Sugars hit
52-week lows on BSE on Thursday amid bearish market mood.
Bank of Baroda, BEL, Clariant Chemicals (India), Dalmia Bharat, Hindustan
Aeronautics, India Cements and Bharti Infratel also joined the bandwagon of stocks that touched 52-week lows on BSE.
Profit booking in bank,
auto, pharma, FMCG and metal stocks spooked domestic equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty on Thursday, making them end the session in the
negative territory a day after they had registered decent gains
Equity barometer Sensex lost 115 points, or 0.32 per cent, to settle at 35,432, with eight stocks advancing and 23 declining
The Nifty50 closed the day 31 points, or 0.29 per cent, down at 10,741
In the 50-share index, 16 stocks finished in the green and 34 in the red.
Barring BSE Oil Gas and Energy indices, all other sectoral
indices closed the day in the red.
In the Sensex pack, ICICI Bank, Reliance Industries and HDFC emerged as top gainers
Mahindra Mahindra, ONGC, State Bank of India and Sun Pharma were the top losers in the Sensex index.