Sensex Falls For Fourth Straight Day, Nifty Settles Below 10,850

Domestic equity benchmarks extended losses dragged by weakness in IT, banking and telecom shares ahead of inflation data for the month of January. The S&P BSE Sensex fell 0.66 per cent or 241 points to 36,154 and the NSE Nifty 50 Index declined 0.5 per cent or 57 points to 10,831.