Mumbai May 5 (IANS) Profit booking along with a weak rupee dragged the key Indian equity indices lower on Friday.
According to market observers selling pressure was witnessed in the metal auto oil and gas stocks.
The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) declined by 84.25 points or 0.90 per cent to provisionally close the day s trade at 9 275.65 points.
However the key index made a new intra-day record high of 9 374.55 points.
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) provisionally closed lower by 290.18 points or 0.96 per cent.
The Sensex of the BSE which opened at 30 142.14 points provisionally closed at 29 836.03 points (around 3.30 p.m.) from the previous day s close at 30 126.21 points.
The Sensex touched a high of 30 176.55 points and a low of 29 823.60 points during the day s trade.
--IANS
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Profit booking drags equity markets lower (Second Lead)
