Fag-end selling drags Sensex 224 pts lower; Nifty slips below 19,400; online gaming stocks tumble

Benchmark equity indices ended lower on Wednesday after three days of gain amid profit-taking ahead of key macroeconomic data announcements due later in the day along with the first quarter earnings from TCS and HCL Technologies. Fag-end selling pulled down the 30-share BSE Sensex lower, which declined 223.94 points or 0.34 per cent to settle at 65,393.90. During the day, it hit a low of 65,320.25 and a high of 65,811.64. The NSE Nifty fell by 55.10 points or 0.28 per cent to end at 19,384.30.