Global cues, weak rupee depress equity indices; rupee hits fresh low (Second Lead)
The rupee touched an all time low of 69.80 per US dollar on Monday following weakness in global peers.
At 3.30 p.m. the wider NSE Nifty50 provisionally closed at 11 355.75 points lower by 73.75 points or 0.65 per cent from its previous close.
The barometer Sensex on the BSE closed at 37 644.90 -- lower by 224.33 points or 0.59 per cent -- from its previous close of 37 869.23 points.
It touched an intra-day high of 37 799.54 points and a low of 37 559.26 points.
The top gainers on the Sensex so far were Infosys Sun pharma Wipro Mahindra and Mahindra and Coal India while the major losers were Yes Bank Vedanta Tata Motors (DVR) State Bank of India and ONGC.
--IANS rrb-ravi/sed