Market Close: The Sensex ended the day down by nearly 350 points,

while the Nifty slipped below the 26,050 mark as weakness in financial and IT stocks dragged the indices lower. Sensex Today | Market Wrap: Indian equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty finished Thursday about 0.4% lower, as investors booked profits close to all-time highs. Low year-end trading volumes and continued foreign institutional investor (FII) outflows capped risk-taking sentiment. The Nifty 50 declined 0.38% to 26,042.3, whereas the BSE Sensex dropped 0.43% to 85,041.45. The day’s decline reduced weekly gains for both indices. Over the week, the Nifty advanced 0.3% and the Sensex added 0.1%, ending a three-week streak of losses.