Mumbai - The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the National Stock Exchange (NSE), Forex, Money and commodity markets will remain closed on Thursday on account of "Christmas".

Sensex yesterday slumped by nearly 300 points to end day's trade at 27,208.61 due to heavy profit-booking, chiefly in IT, oil & gas and power shares, ignoring government approving the ordinance route to implement insurance and coal reforms.

The BSE 30-share index traded in the positive terrain in early trade but could not to keep the gains and fell sharply o 27,208.61, a fall of 297.85 points or 1.08 percent, due to selling pressure emerged in the last hour of day's trading. PTI