Mumbai: The BSE Sensex ends at 157 points lower at 34,876 on Thursday, amid rising global crude prices and a subdued trend at other Asian bourses.
At the end, the Sensex was down 157.89 points at 35876.22, while Nifty was down 47.70 points at 10746.
Foreign portfolio investors sold shares worth a net Rs 676.63 crore, while domestic institutional investors bought shares worth a net Rs 713.10 crore Wednesday, provisional data showed.
Sectorally, oil and gas, realty, PSU, consumer durables, IT and metal indices led the losses, falling up to 1.44 per cent.
Meanwhile, the rupee depreciated 14 paise to 70.94 against the dollar.
Brent crude futures were trading higher by 0.46 per cent at USD 63.90 per barrel.
Stocks of state-run oil marketing companies such as IOC, BPCL and HPCL were down by up to 1.50 per cent.
A weak trend at other Asian markets too dented domestic trading sentiments, traders added.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 0.50 per cent, Shanghai's Composite Index fell 0.32 per cent, Singapore's Straits Times shed 0.15 per cent and Korea's Kospi slipped 0.44 per cent. Japan's Nikkei, however, was a shade higher in late morning deals.
On Wall Street, the US Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.46 per cent higher in Wednesday's trade.
