Mumbai: Indian equity benchmark indices ended lower on October 18. BSE Sensex settled at 65,877.02, down 551.07 points or 0.83%. NSE Nifty ended at 19,671.10, down 140.40 points or 0.71%.
Top gainers were Cipla, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Tata Motors, Sun Pharma and SBI Life Insurance. Top losers included Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, NTPC, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank.
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Among sectors, except auto and pharma, all other sectoral indices ended lower with power, Information technology, oil & gas, metal, realty and bank down 0.5-1% each. BSE Midcap index shed 0.8% and Smallcap index fell 0.3%.
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