Amid volatility, the Indian equity indices ended lower, snapping four-day gaining streak on October 8 with Nifty closing below 25,100 amid selling across the sectors barring IT and consumer durables.

Amid mixed global markets, the Indian equity markets started with positive bias and with extended buying Nifty inched closer to 25,200. However, selling at mid-session, erased all the intraday gains to end marginally lower.

At close, the Sensex was down 153.09 points or 0.19 percent at 81,773.66, and the Nifty was down 62.15 points or 0.25 percent at 25,046.15. BSE Midcap index shed 0.7% and Smallcap indices declined 0.4%.

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Among sectors, except consumer durables (up 0.7), IT (up 1.5%) all other sect

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