Benchmark indices ended lower for the third straight session on May 18 with Nifty below 18,150.
At close, the Sensex was down 128.90 points or 0.21% at 61,431.74, and the Nifty was down 51.80 points or 0.28% at 18,130. About 1530 shares advanced, 1846 shares declined, and 124 shares unchanged.
Top losers on the Nifty included Divis Laboratories, Adani Ports, SBI, ITC and Titan Company. However, gainers were Bajaj Finance, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank and Asian Paints.
Except bank, all other sectoral indices ended in the red with realty, oil & gas, PSU Bank, power, pharma, FMCG, capital goods down 1-2 percent each.
The BSE midcap index shed 0.67 percent and smallcap index declined 0.26 percent.
