Mumbai, Dec. 16 -- The Indian stock market faced significant losses amid the rupee falling to record low levels and weak global cues keeping the market under pressure.

Indian rupee crossed the 91 mark for the first time, and has lost 1% in the last five trading sessions against the US dollar.

Sensex suffered a loss of 0.63% or 522 points at 84,679.86, while the Nifty 50 was down by 0.64% or 167 points at 25,860.10.

Among the sectors, Nifty Realty emerged as the top laggard. Others, including Nifty Bank, Nifty Oil & Gas, and Nifty Pharma, all closed lower, while on the upside was the Nifty Consumer Durables index.

Shrikant Chouhan, Head Equity Research, Kotak Securities, said, "The benchmark indices corrected sharply. The Nifty ended 1...