Sensex provisionally closes over 350 points down

Mumbai, June 3  A day after it crashed by 660 points, a benchmark index of the Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip BSE Sensitive Index (Sensex), provisionally closed over 350 points down on Wednesday.

The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) also provisionally closed deep in the red. It closed 101.35 points or 1.23 percent down at 8,135.10 points.

The Sensex of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 27,230.68 points, closed the day's trade at 26,837.20 points (at 3.35 p.m.), down 351.18 points or 1.29 percent from the previous day's close at 27,188.38 points.

The Sensex touched a high of 27,276.22 points and a low of 26,698.26 points in the intra-day trade.