Sensex headed for second weekly loss, falls 200 points

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Last Updated : Aug 02 2013 | 3:05 PM IST

Reuters Market Eye - The BSE Sensex falls more than 1 percent, headed for its second successive weekly fall. The Nifty is down 1.2 percent.

Power Grid Corp of India falls after it announced a secondary offering on fears that state-run utility would price the offering at a discount to attract investor interest.

State-run banks drop for second day on worries about declining asset quality.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgrades public sector lenders Bank of Baroda and Union Bank of India [ID:nL4N0G31RG]

Shares in Titan Industries Ltd up 8.2 percent after Deutsche Bank upgraded the stock to "buy" from "hold" after the jewellery maker's April-June results.

(Reporting by Himank Sharma)

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First Published: Aug 02 2013 | 2:58 PM IST

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