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Indian equity benchmarks were witnessing selling pressure at 10:46 hours as crude retested last week highs again yesterday. Even profit booking was another reason behind the marginal sell-off today as benchmarks rallied 3.5% on Wednesday, reacted to Budget 2011.

March 03, 2011 / 11:12 IST

Indian equity benchmarks were witnessing selling pressure at 10:46 hours as crude retested last week highs again yesterday. Even profit booking was another reason behind the marginal sell-off today as benchmarks rallied 3.5% on Wednesday, reacted to Budget 2011.

London Brent crude was trading at USD 116.60 a barrel, up USD 0.25 a barrel. There were reports that Libyan fighter jets fired on the oil terminal city of Masra El Brega

The sell-off was triggered by the arrest of a Shi

first published: Mar 3, 2011 10:50 am

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