New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- Indian stock market ended lower on Friday amid broad-based selling across most of the sectors, Nifty closing below the 25,200 mark.
At close, the Sensex was down 961.42 points or 1.17% at 81,287.19, and the Nifty was down 317.90 points or 1.25% at 25,178.65.
Nifty Midcap and smallcap indices also down 1% each. The overall market capitalisation of BSE-listed firms dropped to around Rs 463 lakh crore from Rs 468.5 lakh crore in the previous session.
Among the sectors, Nifty Realty was the top laggard falling 2.27%. Nifty Auto, Nifty FMCG, and Nifty Metal all sank over 1.5%. Nifty Media closed up 0.65%, Nifty Chemicals rose 0.11% while the Nifty IT largely remained unchanged.
On Nifty, the top gainers were Trent, HCL ...