The BSE Sensex fell over 800 points Friday, extending its losing run for the third day, even as the RBI's bi-monthly policy kept repo rates unchanged amid weak global cues. The 30-share index after cracking the 35,000-mark touch ed a low of 34,267.


It lost 1,356.98 points in the previous two sessions on rupee woes and boiling crude oil prices. Sectoral indices led by oil and gas, PSU, infrastructure, auto and banking stocks cracked up to 10.27 per cent. Stocks of state-run oil companies were under selling pressure as the government Thursday announced a Rs 2.50 per litre cut in petrol and diesel prices after it reduced excise duty by Rs 1.50 a litre and asked oil companies to absorb another Re 1.


Shares of BPCL, HPCL and IOC were trading sharply lower by up to 20.50 per cent on nervous selling by investors.


The NSE Nifty also dropped to 10,284. Brokers said investors offloaded their positions, tracking a selloff in global markets as US Treasury surged to multi-year highs on robust economic data and comments from the Federal Reserve, sparking fears of accelerating inflation.


The rupee collapsed to a lifetime low of Rs 74.20.