The stock indices closed with a marginal dip after both indices touched a time high during Monday's session. The Sensex touched a record high of 77,079 and the Nifty 50 reached 23,411 points. The Nifty 50 concluded with a decline of 0.13 percent at 23,259 and the Sensex declined 0.27 per cen
The Sensex declined by 267 points to 73,956, while the Nifty 50 declines 73 points to 22,451 on the early trade during Friday. Despite this, Nifty 50 formed a small negative candle on the daily chart, indicating substantial resistance at new all-time highs.
At 9.19 am, BSE 30-share Sensex declined 79.17 points to 62,574.36 while broad-based Nifty also lost 27 points and was at 16,633.20 level. The majority of the key indices across the world's stock exchanges were trading in the losses during morning trade.
The BSE 30-share Sensex declined 393 points to 61,787.77 levels and 50-share Nifty went down 112 points to 18,496.60 levels at 9.20 in the morning. Some of the gainers on BSE during morning trade were Hindustan Oil Exploration, Hikal and JP Associates. MTNL, Raymond, Glenmark and BirlaSoft w