Sensex ends down 71 pts

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Mumbai, March 27: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex ended lower by 71 points at close on Thursday on profit selling by funds in heavyweight stocks led by Tata Motors. The 30-share Sensex, which had recorded the second biggest gain on Tuesday, fell by 71.27 points at 16,015.56. The index touched the day's low of 15,869.09 and a high of 16,111.44 points.

The National Stock Exchange index Nifty, also added 1.40 points at 4,830.25. It dip to 4,769.60 and rose as high as 4,863.75 points.

A decline in bank, information technology and oil and gas sector stocks mainly pulled the BSE barometer down. Bank index lost 125.14 points at 8,176.66, while IT index by 112.80 points at 3,579.75 and oil and gas by 63.58 points at 10,107.98.

Sensex member Tata Motors dropped the most in more than two months after reports of its 2.3 billion-dollar purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover.

Banking and finance company stocks fell led by Housing Development Finance Corp., which recorded the biggest decline since March 17 as 3.4 million shares of the company changed hands in single trade, the most this year.