World Bank lowered its global economic growth outlook for 2016 to 2.9% from 3.3% earlier.
The 50-share NSE Nifty shed some ground to settle at 8,699.40 points, up 40.30 points, or 0.47 per cent
Maruti Suzuki, Asian Paints, L&T, ONGC and Infosys have gained between 1%-1.5%.