Taking a cue from the weak global markets, the Sensex today resumed below the 6,400-mark with a loss of 128 points at 6,340. The market was extremely bearish through the trading session as selling was seen across-the-board, with tech stocks leading the downfall on the muted next quarter guidance by Infosys.
After hovering around 190-points loss in the afternoon trades, fresh bout of selling pressure in late noon trades dragged the Sensex below the 6,250-mark to a low of 6,232.
The Sensex finally wrapped up the session with a huge slump of 220 points at 6,248. The Nifty, too, was under the bear hug and lost 69 points to 1,956.
Infosys, which slid sharply at tech-heavy Nasdaq yesterday, crashed nearly 7% (Rs 146) to Rs 1,957. While Satyam slumped 6% (Rs 25) to Rs 383, Wipro dropped 6.29% (Rs 41) to Rs 605.
Reliance scaled down 2.89% (Rs 16) to Rs 530. While ONGC dropped 3.48% (Rs 30) to Rs 847, ITC lost 2.73% (Rs 39) to Rs 1,377.
SBI fell 3.66% (Rs 24) to Rs 622. While HDFC Bank lost nearly 5% (Rs 28) to Rs 534, ICICI Bank shed 2.30% (Rs 9) to Rs 403.
Cipla crashed 6% (Rs 15) to Rs 234.