BENGALURU: Indian shares slipped on Thursday after three straight sessions of gains, as a rally in financial and IT stocks paused, while tyre makers slid after the competition regulator fined them for price cartelisation.
The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index was down 0.17% at 17,749.55, as of 0357 GMT, while the S&P BSE Sensex slipped 0.22% to 59,426.47.
The indexes had climbed about 4% each over the last three sessions after a recent sell-off.
Tyre makers Apollo Tyres, CEAT, MRF and JK Tyre dropped between 1.9%-4% after India's antitrust agency slapped fines on the companies for price cartelisation.
Tata Consumer Products jumped 3.6% after posting a rise in quarterly profit, limiting some losses on the blue-chip Nifty 50.
Conglomerate ITC and jeweller and watch maker Titan Company were muted ahead of quarterly results.
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