Mumbai, April 8 -- the BSE sensex on Wednesday declined by 173.25 points to settle at 29,893.96 in highly volatile trade on profit booking by local operators at high level amid negative global peers. The nifty of national stock exchange too eased by 43.45 points to 8748.75. The nifty recorded days high and low at 9131.70 and 8,643.90 points respectively.

High volatility was witnessed in the equity market.

Though, the Sensex opened low at 366 points to 29,701.92 it immediately surged.

During the day it climbed nearly 1160 points to 31,227.97. And from noon its downward journey started and tumbled down 465 points to 29,602.94.

And finally closed negative at 29,893.96, down by 173.25 pts from its last close. On Tuesday the Sensex registe...