Mumbai Sep 24 (IANS) Slump in the financial stocks along with a weak rupee and high crude oil prices dragged the S&P BSE Sensex down 536 points on Monday and the NSE Nifty50 lost nearly 170 points to close below 11 000-mark -- slipping into the red for the fifth consecutive session.
On the other hand the rupee weakened during the day to trade around 72.59 (4.15 p.m) per US dollar against the previous close of 72.20 per greenback.
With all the major sectors contributing to the sell-off top sectoral losers were banking auto and finance.
At 3.30 p.m the wider NSE Nifty50 provisionally closed at 10 974.90 points lower 168.20 points or 1.51 per cent from the previous close of 11 143.10 points.
The BSE Sensex which had opened at 36 924.72 points provisionally closed at 36 305.02 points lower 536.58 points or 1.46 per cent from the Friday s close of 36 841.60 points.
The Sensex touched an intra-day high of 36 945.50 points and a low of 36 216.95 points.

--IANS ravi-rrb/nir