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Indian shares end lower; banks, Infosys drag

MUMBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Indian shares provisionally endedlower on Wednesday led by a fall in banking stocks includingICICI Bank

, and as sentiment was also hit by Standard& Poor's remarks that the country still faced the risk of arating downgrade.

ICICI Bank fell 0.95 percent while State Bank of India

fell 2.7 percent.

Ahead of corporate earnings on Friday, Infosys

fell 1.82 percent while HDFC Bank

fell 1.29 percent.The BSE indexfell 0.92 percent, while the 50-shareNSE indexalso lost 0.92 percent.

(Reporting by Manoj Dharra; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)

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