Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Ananth Kumar campaign for the Chickpet constituency candidate Uday Garudachar (right) ahead of the Karnataka Assembly election in Bengaluru. Pic/PTI

Markets continued to remain volatile and in the four-day trading week we had all possible combinations. Markets were up, down sideways and again sideways. The net change on the BSESENSEX was a loss of 54.32 points or 0.16 per cent to close at 34,915.38 points. NIFTY lost 74.05 points or 0.70 per cent to close at 10,018.25 points. The broader market saw the BSE100, BSE200 and BSE500 lose 0.90 per cent, 1.03 per cent and 1.06 per cent respectively. BSEMIDCAP was down 2.15 per cent while BSESMALLCAP was down 1.38 per cent.