The Indian stock market, which saw a super rally on Tuesday, lost the steam towards the end amid heavy profit-booking, as fresh tensions between Ukraine and Russia came to light.
At close, the Sensex was down 820.97 points or 1.03% at 78,675.18, and the Nifty was down 257.80 points or 1.07% at 23,883.50.
At close, the Sensex was up 9.83 points or 0.01 per cent at 79,496.15, and the Nifty was down 6.90 points or 0.03 per cent at 24,141.30.
At close, the Sensex was down 55.47 points or 0.07 per cent at 79,486.32, and the Nifty was down 51.15 points or 0.21 per cent at 24,148.20 .Equities ignored positive global markets after the US Federal Reserve cut its benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point.
Both the benchmark indices closed the session with positive gains experiencing a notable recovery from its lows on Tuesday.
Other laggards on the Sensex included Tata Steel, IndusInd Bank, NTPC, PowerGrid, ONGC and TCS.
The broader market followed the equity indices and slipped over a half per cent. The MidCap dropped 1.7 per cent while the SmallCap ended 1.6 per cent down.
The S&P BSE Sensex ended 811.68 points or 2.09 per cent lower at 38,034.14 levels.
Other laggards on the BSE Sensex included Kotak Bank, Bajaj Finserv, Maruti, Titan, SBI, HUL, HDFC and Tata Steel.
The S&P BSE Sensex ended 323 points or 0.82 per cent lower at 38,979.85 while NSE Nifty fell 88.45 points or 0.76 per cent to 11,516.10.
