Markets decline further on back of selling pressure in frontline metal stocks. The Sensex has fallen 153 points to 19,834 and the Nifty has declined 56 points to 5971.
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The NSE Nifty is down seven points at 6,020.
Energy and Capital Goods shares continue to trade with positive bias, while metal languish in red.
Larsen & Toubro, NTPC and Tata Power have advanced over 1% each to Rs 2,020, Rs 207 and Rs 1,391, respectively.
Reliance, Reliance Communications and Cipla are the other prominent gainers.
On the other hand, Sterlite has shed nearly 3% at Rs 172. Tata Steel and HDFC have declined around 2% each to Rs 620 and Rs 706, respectively.
Tata Motors, Hindalco and ITC are down around 1% each.
The market breadth is marginally negative - out of 3,024 stocks traded so far, 1,634 have declined and 1,286 have advanced on the BSE.
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