On Monday first day week of a trading session the market closed with a red note or Nifty fail to hold the level of 7,900 end of the day.
The 30-share BSE Sensex closed at 25,678.93 down by 159 points and 50-share NSE Nifty down by 44 points closed at 7,855.05 or 0.56%.
The broader markets outperformed as the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices were down only 0.14% and 0.4% respectively.
And the market breadth remained weak as about 1534 shares declined against 1079 advancing shares on BSE.
UltraTech cement shares ended flat with 0.21% gain after company reported a 10.77% rise in profit.
The Hang Seng index fell 0.8% to 21,304.44 while the China Enterprises index lost 1.5% to 8,986.33 points.
NSE Nifty gainers and losers :
Gainers
ADANI PORTS,BPCL,TCS,BHARTIARTL.
Losers
BANK BARODA,RELIANCE,MARUTI,NTPC.