Final Trade: Market falls for the third consecutive day, Sensex breaks 500 points, Nifty closes below 17,700

On the day of weekly expiry, the stock markets closed with a red mark. The fall dominated the stock market today and both Sensex and Nifty closed down by about 1 percent. There was a fall of 575.46 points in the Sensex and the index closed at the level of 59,034.95. Apart from this, the Nifty 50 index saw a decline of 168.20 points and the index closed at the level of 17,639.50. During today's trading session, buying was seen in 1678 shares and selling was seen in 1644 shares and there is no change in 102 shares.