Taking Stock: Nifty below 25,500, Sensex down 288 pts; metals outperform


Among sectors, metal index was up 1.4 percent, Consumer Durables index added 1 percent, while PSU bank, capital goods, realty, media, power were down 0.4-1.4 percent. The BSE midcap and smallcap index shed 0.2 percent each.