Equity benchmarks opened marginally lower on first day of the week led by Infosys. The Sensex fell 5.64 points to 28452.46 and the Nifty declined 5.30 points to 8533.
Infosys plunged more than 3 percent after 3.3 crore shares traded in multiple blocks on BSE, NSE in early trade. TCS, Sesa Sterlite, IndusInd Bank, HCL Technologies, Hero Motocorp and Bajaj Auto were marginally down. However, Jindal Steel, Coal India, UltraTech Cement, ITC, Asian Paints, BHEL, Sun Pharma and Bharti Airtel gained 0.7-1.5 percent.
The Indian rupee slipped in the early trade. It has opened lower by 21 paise at 61.98 per dollar versus 61.77 Friday.
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