Final Trade: Stock market closed with heavy fall, Nifty, Financial and IT shares break below 17000

On the second trading session of the week also, the stock markets closed with a sharp decline. The stock markets had started well on Tuesday, but after half an hour before the closing, both the indices started trading with a heavy red mark and closed with a heavy fall. The Sensex saw a fall of 703.59 points and this index was 56,463.15 level closed. Apart from this, there was a decline of 215 points in the Nifty 50 index and this index closed below the level of 17000. On the other hand, 1111 shares were bought and 2216 shares were sold and 118 shares did not see any change.