Mumbai, Aug 19 (Inditop.com) A fall in Chinese bourses weighed heavily on Indian equities markets with a key index ending trade Wednesday 209 points below its previous close.
The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened higher at 15,079.04 points, ended at 14,825.35 points (provisional), down 209.91 points or 1.61 percent.
The Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) also closed in the red, losing 1.32 percent or 58.95 points from its previous closing figure to end at 4,399.95 points.
At the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the main index closed 4.3 percent lower, rising after having lost more than 5 percent.
