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Sensex and Nifty lose for a fourth day as Brent tops $114; Nifty down 2.4% on the week

The Sensex closed at 73,123.83 and the Nifty at 22,600 on 23 October, a fourth straight fall, as Brent crude traded above $114 a barrel and foreign institutions kept selling.

The curved BSE tower and the electronic share-price ticker on its Dalal Street building in Mumbai, seen from street level.

Indian shares lost ground for a fourth straight session on 23 October as Brent crude futures hovered around $114 a barrel.

The Sensex closed at 73,123.83, down 125.56 points or 0.17 per cent. The Nifty ended at 22,600, down 87.65 points or 0.39 per cent. For the week the Nifty lost about 2.4 per cent and the Sensex about 2 per cent.

The rupee hovered close to 95 to the dollar. Markets reopen on Monday, 26 October.

Photo: BSEINDIA / CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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