Markets This Week: Sensex, Nifty end lower for second straight week; auto drags, metals gain

Indian indices ended in the red for the second consecutive week with both Nifty and Sensex ending around 0.2 percent. Losses in auto, IT stocks were offset by gains in metals and financials. The sentiment was also dented by a slowing pace of vaccination in some states and a global spread of the Delta variant of…