New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Indian stock markets on Wednesday remained under pressure throughout the session amid selling across most sectors. Market was weighed on by elevated crude oil prices and concerns over corporate earnings.
At open, the indices were higher and traded in positive territory for the first couple of hours before profit booking in late-morning trade erased the gains.
At close, the Sensex was down 143.21 points or 0.19 percent at 73,709.69, and the Nifty was down 77.60 points or 0.34 percent at 22,811.35.
Among the sectors, IT index rose 2.5 percent, while auto, consumer durables, energy, media, metal, pharma, realty, private bank were down 1-2 percent.
On Nifty, the gainers included Infosys, Tech Mahindra, TCS, HCL Technol...