INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Share markets on Friday: Twenty three out of 30 Sensex stocks closed the session in the red.
Domestic stock markets extended falls on Friday to end the session at a seven-month low
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark index Sensex closed 340.78 points or 1.01 per cent lower at 33,349.31
This is the lowest closing after April 4 when it had finished at 33,019.07
The wider Nifty50 index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) shed 94.90 points or 0.94 per cent to settle at 10,030.00
This is its weakest closing after March 23, when the gauge had ended at 9998.05 points
Most of the sectoral indices, led by banks, IT and FMCG closed in the negative zone