Stock Market News, March 17 -- After a four-week storm surge, domestic benchmark equity indices, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, had their worst week in more than four months on Friday's session. With the sole exception of the information technology (IT) sector, all sectoral indices witnessed losses by the end of the week, according to analysts.

The 30-share BSE Sensex ended lower by 453.85 points or 0.62% at 72,643.43 level while the Nifty 50 closed at 22,023.35 level, down 123.30 points or 0.56%.

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